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Repeatedly losing and gaining weight does more than frustrate dieters – it also accelerates muscle loss in middle-aged people, according to new UC San Francisco research that comes as weight-loss medications transform obesity treatment

Obesity is a chronic, adiposity-based disease with increasing global prevalence and multiple, competing definitions. Traditionally, body mass index (BMI) has been the primary tool for diagnosis, although it does not completely reflect adipose tissue mass, distribution or associated organ dysfunction. In the past 2 years, major professional societies (including the European Association for the Study…