Weight Management

The prevalence of obesity has reached 39.8% of Americans, affecting 93.3 million of US adults.

Keeping the pounds off is more difficult than shedding them. Here are the most successful ways to do it.

The results of a recent study show that individuals with a high body mass index (BMI) face a heightened risk of developing dementia compared with those who have a healthy BMI.

Obesity has been considered a risk factor for severe acute respiratory illness, including more severe cases of the flu, but a recently-published study found that weight may not be associated with increased illness severity.

Are you a busy professional? Think eating healthy is difficult? It doesn't have to be!

Restrictive eating, emotional eating, and binge eating are mental traps that keep us from reaching our goal.

Our minds and beliefs can be used to augment therapy in effective and optimal treatment strategies.

Follow these tips to improve your patient's lifestyle choices.

Weight can be a difficult topic for patients, as people with diabetes often have trouble losing weight and medications can cause weight gain.

Losing weight can be hard to maintain—98% of people who lose weight regain it within 2 years.

Instead of heading to the junk food aisle and grabbing Twizzlers and a Coke, try these tips to boost your energy levels naturally.

Search for nutrition advice online and you will be bombarded with misinformation- this will set the core concepts for sustained weight loss straight.

Here are some ways to have a great start in our pharmacies.

It is possible to lose weight more quickly eating the same number of calories, just by getting into the right metabolic position.

Have a plan to minimize stress and reduce post-party guilt.

Ready to achieve big goals in the new year? Here is how to avoid common pitfalls.

For people on a specific nutrition plan, how do you navigate the festivities and enjoy them?

Obesity will be a significant problem for more than half of US children if current trends continue, according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

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Despite the availability of such products, obesity continues to signifi- cantly contribute to morbidity and mortality in the United States.

In a world where we are bombarded with various diets, what does the evidence say?

As the most accessible health care providers, pharmacists may be asked questions regarding physical activity from patients with arthritis, and it’s important to advise them to keep moving.

We have all heard of self-sabotage, but what about self-handicapping?

In this clip, Kathy Campbell, PharmD, CEO of Medicap Pharmacy, discusses the benefits of interacting with patients about their wellness and offering weight management services in the pharmacy.

In this clip, Brooke Hudspeth, PharmD, CDE, of the Kroger Co., explains how pharmacists can play a role in reinforcing the importance of lifestyle modifications for the prevention and management of type 2 diabetes.

In this clip, Brooke Hudspeth, PharmD, CDE, of the Kroger Co. discusses how pharmacists can educate patients about lifestyle modifications that could impact their diabetes.

New research conducted by the London Metropolitan University suggests that patients may be able to follow a reduced carb diet as an effective and safe strategy for managing their diabetes.

It’s that time of the year again where we all feed our faces and start to dread stepping back on the scale. You want to lose the weight but you just can’t stop eating. You keep telling yourself you will start your diet Monday or after the holidays. Not only is all of the food you’re ingesting adding numbers to the scale, but it’s also putting you at an increased risk of developing diseases such as congestive heart disease, hypertension, stroke, type 2 diabetes, and various cancers. Here is some information that may help you keep the weight off and start shedding some pounds.

Pharmacists are slowly changing the way they deliver their services. Previous professional literature has demonstrated pharmacists' potential through studies of how clinical pharmacists improve care for patients in many settings, especially for diabetes.