A recently developed program through WVU Medicine Medical Weight Management is encouraging patients to add more vegetables to their diet while demonstrating simple recipes using healthy ingredients. […]
Tag: weight loss
The skinny on GLP-1 injections for weight loss: Are they right for you?
by Kelly Springer A new report shows that more than 15.5 million people have used GLP-1 (glucagon-like peptide-1) receptor agonists like Semaglutide for weight loss. With summer […]
WVU expert recommends small, consistent dietary changes for an effective New Year’s resolution
In a recent survey conducted by Forbes Health, losing weight and improving diet rank among the top five New Year’s resolutions for 2024. However, nutrition experts at […]
What got lost in obesity drug hype
by Lisa Jarvis This year, the incredible potential of obesity medicines like Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic and Wegovy and Eli Lilly’s Zepbound started to come into view. The […]
New weight loss drugs are promising — and expensive
West Virginia has a weight problem. Forty-one percent of state residents are clinically obese, which is defined as having a body mass index (BMI) of greater than […]
Eli Lilly’s new weight-loss drug better than Ozempic
by Lisa Jarvis New data from an experimental drug being developed by Eli Lilly & Co. raises an intriguing question about obesity treatments: How low can the […]
Does this stress make me look fat?
This may be a bad time to bring this up but … we have put on a few extra pounds during the pandemic. Not everybody, of course, […]
Shame-free Weight Loss
WVU Today Even for those of us who dodged the virus itself, the COVID-19 pandemic hit us in more ways than one. We remember March 2020 as […]
