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  2. Obesity - Wikipedia

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    Obesity is a medical condition, sometimes considered a disease, [8] [9] [10] in which excess body fat has accumulated to such an extent that it can potentially have negative effects on health.

  3. Management of obesity - Wikipedia

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    Over the longer term, average weight loss on orlistat is 2.9 kg (6.4 lb). It leads to a reduced incidence of diabetes, and has some effect on cholesterol. However, there is little information on how it affects the longer-term complications or outcomes of obesity. [13]

  4. Obesity-associated morbidity - Wikipedia

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    Death rate from obesity, 2019. Obesity is a risk factor for many chronic physical and mental illnesses.. The health effects of being overweight but not obese are controversial, with some studies showing that the mortality rate for individuals who are classified as overweight (BMI 25.0 to 29.9) may actually be lower than for those with an ideal weight (BMI 18.5 to 24.9). [1]

  5. BMI is wrong way to measure obesity, researchers say - AOL

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    Potential effects of clinical obesity may include heart attack, stroke and kidney failure. "As these categories of obesity are entirely new, we can’t measure their relative prevalence in the ...

  6. Travis Kelce, Jake Gyllenhaal and why BMI is problematic. It ...

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    BMI falls short as a way to measure obesity. Doctors need to also determine whether body fat harms a person's health. Travis Kelce, Jake Gyllenhaal and why BMI is problematic.

  7. Intermittent fasting - Wikipedia

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    Therapeutic intermittent fasts for the treatment of obesity have been investigated since at least 1915, with a renewed interest in the medical community in the 1960s after Bloom and his colleagues published an "enthusiastic report". [15] Intermittent fasts, or "short-term starvation periods", ranged from 1 to 14 days in these early studies. [16]

  8. Weight loss - Wikipedia

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    Intentional weight loss is the loss of total body mass as a result of efforts to improve fitness and health, or to change appearance through slimming. Weight loss is the main treatment for obesity, [1] [2] [3] and there is substantial evidence this can prevent progression from prediabetes to type 2 diabetes with a 7–10% weight loss and manage cardiometabolic health for diabetic people with a ...

  9. Leptin - Wikipedia

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    It was shown that short-term metreleptin treatment of patients with anorexia nervosa had rapid on-set of beneficial cognitive, emotional, and behavioral effects. Among other things, depression, drive for activity, repetitive thoughts of food, inner restlessness, and weight phobia decreased rapidly.