Marygrace Taylor

2 weeks ago | healthcentral.com | Marygrace Taylor

It’s easy to think of obesity—a condition defined by a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or greater—as a single disease. But new research presented at this year’s Digestive Diseases Week suggests that obesity may have multiple subtypes, based on how a person experiences hunger. What’s more, which subtype a person has may have to do with the makeup of bacteria in their microbiome. “Obesity isn’t just one condition—it can show up in different ways.

2 weeks ago | healthcentral.com | Marygrace Taylor

You probably don’t think too much about your ability to derive pleasure from food or think of it as something that varies from one person to the next. But in fact, the amount of enjoyment you get from eating is variable—and while it might seem counterintuitive, many people with obesity report losing the ability to get pleasure from eating rich food. “You might think that people with obesity are driven to eat more because they find rich foods particularly pleasurable.

2 weeks ago | healthcentral.com | Marygrace Taylor

Up to one in eight U.S. women will develop breast cancer, and approximately a third of them have diabetes, data shows. (Nationally, 10% of women have diabetes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.) Understanding how the two conditions are connected could play a key role in better treatment outcomes for both conditions, researchers say.

1 month ago | healthcentral.com | Marygrace Taylor

No one wants to come down with a case of COVID, otherwise healthy or not. But when you have an inflammatory bowel disease like Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis, you have an additional reason to add to the list: Getting a COVID infection when you have IBD may put you at higher risk for catching another upper respiratory infection like RSV, according to a recent study published in the journal Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology.

1 month ago | healthcentral.com | Marygrace Taylor

Finding a knowledgeable gastroenterologist who “gets” you. Getting on the right treatment in a timely manner. Steering clear of your triggers as much as possible. If you had to sum up inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) control in three basic steps, those would probably be it. But if you live with Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis (UC), the two major types of IBD, you know that it’s not always that easy.