Weight management

Evidence-graded topics and articles tagged Weight management.

Topics

• Alpha-Lipoic Acid — Alpha-lipoic acid may ease burning and tingling in diabetic nerve pain, and several meta-analyses show a small weight loss, but the strongest recent review fou…
• Berberine — Berberine meaningfully lowers fasting blood sugar and HbA1c in type 2 diabetes, with modest reductions in body weight.
• Carnivore Diet — Small, uncontrolled studies suggest some people lose weight and improve their blood sugar on an all-meat, plant-free diet, at least in the short term.
• Green Tea — Small drops in weight and blood pressure in trials, with a small extra weight loss when combined with exercise.
• Intermittent Fasting — Intermittent fasting helps adults with overweight or obesity lose weight: pooled trials show about 3 kg more loss than control groups, and it works about as we…
• Kimchi — Kimchi is a fermented vegetable side dish that large Korean studies link to lower rates of obesity and better cholesterol levels when eaten in moderate amounts.
• Mediterranean Diet — Eating a Mediterranean-style diet - built on olive oil, nuts, fish, vegetables, legumes and whole grains - reduced heart attacks and strokes in large randomise…
• Nuts — Nuts lower LDL cholesterol a little in trials and, in trials lasting more than three weeks, do not appear to cause weight gain.
• Ultra-processed food — Controlled feeding trials find people eat several hundred extra calories a day on ultra-processed diets and lose less weight than on minimally processed ones.