Excessive sugar consumption is increasingly considered as a contributor to the emerging
epidemics of obesity and the associated cardiometabolic disease. Sugar is added to the diet …

Hypertension affects approximately one third of the world's adult population and is a major
cause of premature death despite considerable advances in pharmacological treatments …

The governmental lockdowns related to the COVID-19 pandemic have forced people to
change their behavior in many ways including changes in exercise. We used the brief …

Given rapid advancements in medical science, it is often challenging for the busy clinician to
remain up-to-date on the fundamental and multifaceted aspects of preventive cardiology and …

People with obesity commonly face a pervasive, resilient form of social stigma. They are
often subject to discrimination in the workplace as well as in educational and healthcare …

Because current therapeutics for obesity are limited and only offer modest improvements,
novel interventions are needed. Preventing obesity with time-restricted feeding (TRF; 8–9 hr …

Most studies of the human microbiome have focused on westernized people with life-style
practices that decrease microbial survival and transmission, or on traditional societies that …

Human gut microbiota directly influences health and provides an extra means of adaptive
potential to different lifestyles. To explore variation in gut microbiota and to understand how …

Weight changes are accompanied by imbalances between calorie intake and expenditure.
This fact is often misinterpreted to suggest that obesity is caused by gluttony and sloth and …

Current obesity prevention strategies recommend increasing daily physical activity,
assuming that increased activity will lead to corresponding increases in total energy …