He stresses that the Lap-Band is just a tool to help patients lose weight.
Scientists are constantly searching for the best ways to help people lose weight.
If you hired a personal trainer to help you lose weight and you actually got fatter, you'd fire the trainer.
Despite the pill's apparent ability to help people lose weight, some critics expressed concerns because of the possible side effects.
They would need to work with a primary-care physician to develop a plan to help them lose weight and otherwise improve their health.
The Royal College of Physicians has also said there were too few joined up services to help people lose weight in Wales and England.
But some obesity specialists, including those at prestigious medical centers, have been prescribing medications to help patients lose weight for decades, both on and off-label.
As reports of the childhood obesity epidemic hit home, parents around the country are struggling to figure out how to help their kids lose weight.
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In recent years countries including the UK, Mexico and South Africa have introduced measures to help police officers lose weight, as expanding waistlines and reduced fitness hamper the fight against crime.
Parents who refuse to help their obese children lose weight are guilty of neglect, researchers have said.
So, could giving more of the lean type of gut bacteria to fat people help them lose weight?
One Chicago based start-up, Retrofit, has emerged as a front runner in harnessing wireless and remote technology to help its busy clients lose weight, especially when they may be away from home while on vacation or business travel.
There is still no reason to believe that chocolate will help you lose weight.
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Researchers have been trying to invent drugs that could safely help people lose weight for years, but most have been disappointments.
Other advantages: The drug doesn't seem to cause any weight gain--and may actually help diabetics lose weight.
But what snack is easy to prepare, portable, tasty and will help you maintain or even lose weight?
Anderson and her co-author are unable to say with any certainty that eating dinner together more often, getting more sleep, and watching less TV will help any given child lose weight, because of the other factors that may contribute to a child's obesity (or that may protect normal-weight children from becoming obese).
Diuretics - chemicals that help the body to lose fluids, and may, for instance, be useful in helping boxers to meet their fighting weight.
What's particularly intriguing to doctors such as Harvard's Chris Cannon is that this means the drug does more than just help patients lose weight.
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