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...messages crafted on our preference for Chianti. The Numerati are also behind the algorithms that drive matchmaking websites, the National Security Agency's work to nab terrorists before they strike and, increasingly, the cutting edge of medicine. Consider a "magic carpet" that detects changes in your elderly father's weight and gait--tipping off his doctor to a potential illness. The Numerati, Baker writes, try to model "something almost hopelessly complex: human life and behavior." They're making progress...
...Having spent the vast majority of my three months in Shanghai, I’m cautious to make a generalization that blankets the entire country, but I think it’s safe to say that youth rebellion as a social inevitability doesn’t have as much weight in China as it does here in the West. Jin Mei may love Chen Qi just as much as Joanie once loved Chachi on “Happy Days,” but Shanghai’s teenage population had a noticeable shortage of Arthur Fonzarellis. And even...
...according to a study published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). While there are several medical solutions to treat this common problem, the study's authors say that one of the simplest and most effective ways to ward it off is to maintain a healthy weight...
...living with their disease. But researchers think the benefits of gastric bypass may indeed be greatest in those obese patients who are recently diagnosed with diabetes, since their bodies are more likely to revert back to normal sugar metabolism after surgery. That's because much of the post-bypass weight loss is spurred by a shift in the hormonal feedback loop that controls hunger and satiety. Production of certain weight-related hormones, such as ghrelin, or the hunger hormone, are directly reduced by the patient's physically smaller stomach (ghrelin is produced by glands in the stomach), leading...
What Campos' study shows, however, is that patients should have realistic expectations of what the surgery can do for them: People without diabetes have the best chance of losing weight and reaping the heart and metabolic benefits of being slimmer; among diabetes patients, those undergoing surgery early on in their disease might fare better than those who wait longer. Both Campos and Hamdy remind patients that surgery is never the final answer - weight-loss maintenance continues long after you're discharged from the hospital, and can only be done the old-fashioned way, with a healthy diet and exercise plan...