Author: Jolanda van Hal

A research review cautions that consumers who stop weight loss medication quickly regain the lost pounds, at a rate of 0.4 kg per month. The authors note that weight and risk markers for diabetes and heart disease are predicted to return to pre-treatment levels in under two years after discontinuing the drugs. Importantly, the authors project that people regain their weight four times faster after stopping weight loss drugs than after cessation of behavioral weight management programs.Read More

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LONDON, Jan 9 (Reuters) – Six Kurdish people went ‌on trial in Britain on ‌Friday charged with membership of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a militant group banned in its home country Turkey as well as ‍Britain and elsewhere. Prosecutors say the defendants, aged between 24 and 63, belonged …Read More

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