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Can Diet Stop Menopause Weight Gain?
A 12-year study of 38,283 US women tied plant-forward diets to slightly less weight gain at menopause — an association, not proof diet stops it.
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Weight Regulation
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Do Diet Drinks Work as Well as Water for Weight Loss?
A 2-year randomized trial found adults in a weight program who drank non-nutritive-sweetened soft drinks were not worse off than water drinkers.
How Much Weight Loss Does Retatrutide Produce?
Two Phase 3 trials found the investigational drug retatrutide produced about 25% average weight loss in obesity without diabetes and 19% with type 2 diabetes.
Does Time-Restricted Eating Work in PCOS?
A 6-month trial found a 6-hour eating window without calorie counting produced weight loss comparable to a 25% calorie cut in 76 women with PCOS — not a proven equal.
Does Eating the Same Meals Help You Lose Weight?
In a 12-week program, adults whose food logs showed more repeated foods and steadier calories lost somewhat more weight — 5.9% vs 4.3%, an association, not proof of cause.
Does Weight Loss Rewire the Gut-Brain Loop?
Preliminary: in an uncontrolled study of 25 adults who lost weight, gut-bacteria and brain-activity shifts tracked together — an association, not proof that weight loss rewires the brain.
Does WHO Recommend Weight Loss Drugs?
The WHO's first global GLP-1 obesity guideline makes two conditional recommendations on moderate-to-low certainty evidence. Who it covers, and who it does not.
Is “Healthy” Ultra-Processed Food as Good?
In 55 UK adults, ultra-processed and minimally processed Eatwell diets both cut weight; the minimally processed one cut about 1 kg more. Critics dispute why.
Does Time Restricted Eating Work?
In a two-week crossover trial, 31 women ate inside an 8-hour window. Insulin sensitivity and cardiometabolic markers did not improve — an imprecise null.
How many daily steps lead to good weight management?
A 14-trial meta-analysis found higher step counts tracked with more weight kept off — but 8,500 steps was the average walked, not a proven target.