Tag Archives: WeightLoss

Weight-Loss Drugs Are Driving a New Eating Disorder Crisis in the US

Weight-Loss Drugs Are Driving a New Eating Disorder Crisis in the US

The last thing Chevese Turner needed was medication to help her lose weight. Twenty years into recovery from binge eating disorder and atypical anorexia, she was done trying to whittle her physique into something it didn’t want to be. But after developing diabetes a few years ago, her doctor prescribed Mounjaro, a glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist (or GLP-1) that helps …

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Ultra-Processed Foods Shatter the Old Weight-Loss Rules

Ultra-Processed Foods Shatter the Old Weight-Loss Rules

Ultra-Processed Foods: The Smoking Gun Behind the Obesity Epidemic For years, the mainstream chorus has been singing the same tired tune: “It’s just calories in, calories out.” Move more, eat less, and voilà—problem solved. But a new study published in PNAS just torched that simplistic model and handed the mic to what many dismissed as fringe theory: ultra-processed foods (UPFs) aren’t just empty calories—they’re …

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Weight-loss wonder drug Mounjaro/Zepbound shrinks breast cancer tumors

Weight-loss wonder drug Mounjaro/Zepbound shrinks breast cancer tumors

The anti-obesity medication tirzepatide, marketed as Mounjaro for diabetes and Zepbound for obesity, reduced obesity-associated breast cancer growth in a mouse model, according to a study presented at ENDO 2025, the Endocrine Society’s annual meeting in San Francisco, California. “Obesity is a significant risk factor for breast cancer, and while it is very preliminary data, our studies in mice suggest …

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