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Study links prediabetes, diabetes in healthy weight adults to sedentary lifestyle
Add one more to the long list of reasons to keep active: A new University of Florida study demonstrates that low levels of physical activity are associated…
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University of Florida researchers to study treatment of obesity in rural people
In the battle against obesity, rural people face unique challenges when attempting to lose weight. Now with the help of a $2.6 million grant from the National…
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UF study: Physical activity, diet improve after bariatric surgery, but do not meet recommended levels
In a long-term study of adults who have undergone bariatric weight loss surgery, University of Florida researchers found participants’ physical activity and…
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UF professor receives grant to study if acupuncture may improve health of GI cancer patients
A University of Florida College of Nursing professor will examine how acupuncture might help curb weight loss in cancer patients with a wasting syndrome.…
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University of Florida Health Fights Obesity with Multidisciplinary Approach
Researchers at University of Florida Health are using a multidisciplinary approach to fight obesity. Experts from surgery, cardiology, pulmonology,…
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Fitness trackers may have little effect on users’ cholesterol, blood pressure levels
Doctors, workplace wellness programs and insurers are increasingly recommending fitness trackers, such as Fitbits, mobile health apps and other wearable…
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How does this grab you? Grip strength may tell whether you have diabetes, high blood pressure
Whether you grasp it right away or not, your grip strength may indicate whether or not you have undetected diabetes and high blood pressure, University of…
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Up to one-third of healthy weight adults may have prediabetes
A third of adults over the age of 45 who don’t look like they could be at risk for developing diabetes — they’re slender — may actually meet the criteria for…
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Intermittent fasting leads to significant weight loss, slows aging, UF research review finds
North American wolf packs can feast on bison or elk and then go two weeks before the next kill. But the wolves’ bodies and brains still perform at high levels…
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UF Health researcher helps show hormone can reverse inflammation from fatty liver disease
Pushed by the obesity epidemic, a rising number of Americans are being diagnosed with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, a condition that can lead to liver…