{"id":624037,"date":"2026-10-08T05:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T05:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/624037\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T05:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T05:14:10","slug":"hometown-health-how-to-keep-the-weight-off-after-stopping-glp-1-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/624037\/","title":{"rendered":"HOMETOWN HEALTH: How to keep the weight off after stopping GLP-1 drug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">(WDBJ) &#8211; Many people rapidly regain weight after stopping GLP-1 weight loss drugs, but a new Tufts University study has found a way to help keep it off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The findings showed people who used a wellness app or tried a medically tailored meal plan after stopping the drugs regained only 3% of the weight they lost.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">By comparison, people who didn\u2019t use an app or meal plans regained 10% of the weight they lost.<\/p>\n<p>Pregnancy complications linked to long-term risks<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Women who had complications during pregnancy face a long-term higher risk of cardiometabolic and renal conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A study published in the British Medical Journal found that cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and chronic kidney disease are all higher in women who previously experienced pregnancy complications.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Researchers said more study is needed to understand the reason behind the associations they found.<\/p>\n<p>New definition changes childhood obesity numbers<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A new global definition of obesity means far fewer children are considered obese.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A study from Murdoch Children\u2019s Research Institute defined obesity using not only body mass index, but also excess body fat and symptoms of obesity-linked health problems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Researchers found that under that definition, only 2% to 5% of children worldwide are obese. The new standard also increased the number of people age 55 and older considered obese.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WDBJ. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(WDBJ) &#8211; Many people rapidly regain weight after stopping GLP-1 weight loss drugs, but a new Tufts University&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[134,524,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-624037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-health","tag-medication","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}