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ScienceHealthA Weight Loss Aid That Makes Your Stomach Full With Less Food Just Cleared the FDA
Overweight and obese people will soon have a new medical option to help them manage their weight. On Monday, the Boston biotech company Gelesis announced they had received clearance from the Food and Drug Administration to market their novel weight loss aid to the public, a pill-based medical device called Plenity that makes people feel … Continued
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Tech NewsCommerceFTC Rules Against Fake Amazon Reviews in Landmark Case
In the first case of its kind, the Federal Trade Commission took action against a diet pill seller for both making false claims and paying to juice their standing on Amazon with fake positive reviews. The fruit of garcinia cambogia has been hailed by some as a powerful weight loss supplement. Of course, there’s no … Continued
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Eating Breakfast May Not Be That Helpful for Weight Loss After All
Breakfast is often said to be the most important meal of the day, but according to a new review out Wednesday in the BMJ, it won’t help you lose weight. The study found no good evidence that regularly eating breakfast helps us cut down on calories or avoid weight gain. More damning, it even found … Continued
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Scientists Retract Study that Found Americans Had Given Up on Losing Weight
It’s well known that Americans have steadily become more overweight and obese over the years. A widely reported 2017 study even found that overweight Americans were giving up on losing weight altogether—but, as it turns out, that conclusion wasn’t quite right. On Tuesday, the authors of the study retracted and corrected their finding, claiming they … Continued
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Should You Be Eating a High-Fat, Low-Carb Diet Like Keto? Scientists Weigh In
Diet fads often make the lofty claim that adjusting food habits one way or another will produce the dieter’s desired results. More specifically: Eat this, not that, and watch the pounds fall off. But diets are hard to sustain, and it seems like diet debunking is constantly calling into question what and how much we … Continued
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Some Supplements Are Full Of Untested, Experimental Stimulants, Study Finds
Doctors have criticized the Food and Drug Administration recently for its inaction on supplements that contain potentially dangerous prescription drug ingredients. But new research published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine suggests the FDA’s track record is even worse than that. The agency doesn’t seem great at removing supplements that have experimental and untested drugs from … Continued
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Tech NewsOctopuses on Ecstasy, Weight-Loss Scams, and Neutron Stars: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week
The tech and science world has had a very interesting week: Researchers have discovered what happens when you give our favorite tentacled, ocean-dwelling friends MDMA, landed rovers on asteroids, confirmed the oldest known animal fossil on the planet, and found something very weird going on with a distant neutron star. At the same time, the … Continued
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Tech NewsThe Bizarre Scheme Using Viral Abuse Stories and Stolen Pics to Sell Diet Pills on Twitter
This weekend, a Twitter user shared a disturbing story that verged on the surreal. In a 32-tweet thread, Ashley recounted an abusive relationship with a boyfriend who forced her to eat until it caused her pain—seemingly for his own sexual pleasure. “he didn’t let me talk to anyone, never let me leave the house w/o him … Continued
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