In a comprehensive research review published in 2018 by the Journal of the American College of Nutrition, scientists found that most overweight and
obese individuals studied who consumed protein supplements lost more weight and fat mass than those who did not.
Not exact matches
One of the group's
studies showed that «
individuals who were clinically
obese according to their medical records were significantly more likely to use words related to being stationary: «sitting, being still, planted, at rest; these sorts of things,»» according the the Lab's director Raina Merchant.
A
study indicates that
obese individuals who drank two liters of alkaline water daily lost an average of 12 pounds over two months.
In one 12 week
study,
obese individuals who daily supplemented coconut oil into their diets had a decrease in abdominal fat (13).
A 2010
study published in the journal Obesity found that daily supplementation with whey protein was enough to significantly lower blood pressure and improve overall cardiovascular function in overweight and
obese individuals.
The
study also revealed that
obese individuals who had comorbidities such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and high cholesterol incurred more costs than
obese workers without these conditions, says Karen Van Nuys, Ph.D., lead coauthor and economist at Precision Health Economics in Los Angeles.
Examining the issue even further, the authors asked
study participants to donate to a cause for which the need was uncontrollable (providing food after a natural disaster) versus controllable (offering nutrition and health education for
obese and sedentary
individuals).
Large observational
studies report that in severely
obese individuals, bariatric surgery is associated with long - term reductions in all major cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors, CVD events such as heart attacks and strokes, cancer and all - cause mortality, including a 92 % decrease in diabetes - related deaths.
Published recently in the Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism, the
study is believed to the first to examine the effects of replacing saturated fats with unsaturated fats in the diets of more than 660 metabolically healthy
individuals who were overweight or
obese.
In addition, those who are both
obese and have severe disease are more likely to die early, while more robust
obese individuals survive and are ultimately
studied.
Imaging
studies reveal that the striatum of
obese individuals shows low levels of a receptor that responds to dopamine, termed the dopamine D2 receptor (D2R).
In a new
study, doctoral student Cajsa Davegårdh has
studied so - called DNA methylation in muscle stem cells in both
obese and non-
obese individuals.
The average BMI for the
study group was 24.5;
obese individuals with a BMI from 30 to 34 accounted for 6.3 percent of the population.
In the latest
study reported in Cell Reports journal online, researchers at IMCB discovered that a protein, called NUCKS [3], is missing in
obese individuals.
The scientists say that previous
studies showed that
obese individuals actually walk differently than those of average weight.
The
study sets the stage for further research, exploring how these metabolic mechanisms could reduce the need for severe dietary constraints in morbidly
obese individuals.
In fact, her lab found that there was greater variability in gut bacteria between the different
studies than between the lean and
obese individuals within each
study.
Walters points to work from
studies of fecal transplants that have shown there are meaningful differences «in the gut microbiome of lean and
obese individuals.»
In fact, we revealed that lean participants from the different
studies varied more in their levels of Firmicutes than did the lean and
obese individuals within each
study, pointing to systematic biases and biological differences across the
study populations.
This
study, financed by both pharmaceutical companies, is «the first to assess the effect of exenatide on body weight in nondiabetic
obese individuals,» said the principal investigator, Michael Trautmann, MD, a researcher with Eli Lilly in Indianapolis.
Out of the 27
individuals that were assessed in this
study, 18 had type 2 diabetes with a duration of the condition for less than 15 years, all within the range group of 25 to 65 years and a body mass index marking them as
obese.
«We believe that low - calorie sweeteners promote additional fat formation by allowing more glucose to enter the cells, and promotes inflammation, which may be more detrimental in
obese individuals,» explains the
study's author.
Earlier
studies have reported the effects of prebiotics and synbiotics supplementation in lipid profile and glucose homeostasis, but an analysis of clinical trials in overweight or
obese individuals has not been carried out.
Supporting
studies confirm that
obese and non-
obese individuals have very different bacterial compositions in their stomachs.
The
study examined the effect a Mediterranean diet could have on sleep apnea symptoms in
obese individuals with sleep apnea, in comparison to
individuals on a prudent diet plan.
In a
study, 52
obese and overweight
individuals went on a 500 calorie deficit diet.
A 2017 meta - analysis of nine
studies showed that whey assisted overweight /
obese individuals in losing fat and reducing risk factors for cardiovascular disease.
A
study done by the University of Milan's Dr. Luisella Vigna found that supplementing vitamin D led to weight loss in overweight and
obese individuals deficient in vitamin D (8).
One
study showed that
obese individuals had 57 % lower levels of vitamin D following UV exposure compared to non-
obese subjects [2].
Additional
studies with lean control subjects, women, and
obese individuals pre — and post — weight loss would be informative.
Recent
studies that used the conventional blood oxygenation level — dependent fMRI have shown selective overactivity in the nucleus accumbens and related brain areas in
obese compared with lean
individuals when shown imagines of highly palatable food (6 — 11) and in subjects who scored high on a measure of food addiction (39).
The participants of the
study published in Lipids in Health and Disease (3/2009) were overweight or
obese, but otherwise healthy
individuals with cholesterol levels within their normal range.
In a
study of 9,824 men, all - cause mortality rates were lower in
individuals that had a body mass index (BMI) over 18 (including overweight and
obese) as compared to
individuals that were underweight.
In one animal
study it was even shown that when
obese but bacteria were transplanted into a lean
individual, the lean
individual became fat (41).
Another
study saw that daily intake of 15 to 30 ml of ACV for 12 weeks lead to up to 3.7 pounds or 1.7 kg in weight loss in
obese individuals (13).
Studies have found that
obese individuals have higher levels of estrogen and lower levels of testosterone.
Most of these
studies were in
obese, hyperlipidemic, or diabetic
individuals, and some used «placebo» smoothies or sugar loading as the relevant control.
In this
study, 3,305
obese individuals participated and results were observed over a period of 4 years (3).
A
study was performed in 20
obese individuals.
In a 12 week long
study of
obese individuals that were given 500 mg of berberine 3 times a day, they lost an average of 5 pounds, and 3.6 % of their body fat (17).
In the present observational
study, 16
obese individuals who participated in the trial were chosen based on their weight - loss success.
Another
study with 200 overweight or
obese individuals found that glucomannan led to weight loss of 12 pounds (4,5 kg) in a period of 16 weeks (28).
In human
studies, they found similar results and evidenced that it's effective in overweight and
obese individuals.
Small
studies of
obese and nonobese
individuals found that weight was lower by 2.5 — 8 % after 3 — 8 wk of ADF (25, 27 — 29).
In the wake of America's obesity epidemic and an effort to better understand the disease, researchers have tirelessly
studied individuals who fall into the
obese weight range.
According to the
study «nearly half of overweight
individuals and 29 percent of
obese people were metabolically healthy while 30 percent of «normal» weight
individuals are actually unhealthy,» reports CBS News.
According to one
study on
obese individuals, consuming apple cider vinegar daily resulted in lower triglycerides, reduced waist circumference, and weight loss.
More recently, Boden et al. 34 performed an in - patient
study in
obese T2D
individuals who were fed a low - carbohydrate (< 20 g / day) diet for 2 weeks.
Several
studies have been done on humans and animals that show
obese individuals have very different gut bacteria to those who are in a normal weight range.
If confirmed in other
studies, this cost - free intervention may be a useful adjunctive treatment in overweight and
obese individuals to attain an increase in energy expenditure.