Nearly half of all U.S. adults have tried to lose weight in the last 12 months. Obesity is often described as an epidemic. A health care crisis even. In this episode, endocrinologist Amy Rothberg, M.D.  joins us to talk about weight loss and the most commonly searched questions about weight management.


What foods help you lose weight the fastest?Is there a danger to losing weight too fast?Does intermittent fasting work?


Fad diets and promises of quick weight loss get a lot of attention in the media, but Dr. Rothberg helps us get into the science and we really know about weight loss.


You can find the episode transcript here.


The Michigan Answers podcast is hosted by Preeti Malani, M.D, M.S.J., Chief Health Officer at the University of Michigan and an internal medicine physician at Michigan Medicine. For more answers to some of the top searched questions on the internet, visit our website at MichiganAnswers.com.

 

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