News tagged with animal fats

Identification of stem cells raises possibility of new therapies

Many diseases – obesity, Type 2 diabetes, muscular dystrophy – are associated with fat accumulation in muscle. In essence, fat replacement causes the muscles to weaken and degenerate.

Medical research Apr 30, 2013 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0 |

Researchers decode a kind of trigger switch for the conversion of fat cells

For a long time, scientists have dreamed of converting undesirable white fat cells into brown fat cells and thus simply have excess pounds melt away. Researchers at the University of Bonn have now gotten ...

Medical research Apr 23, 2013 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0 |

Lipid researcher, 98, reports on the dietary causes of heart disease

A 98-year-old researcher argues that, contrary to decades of clinical assumptions and advice to patients, dietary cholesterol is good for your heart – unless that cholesterol is unnaturally oxidized (by ...

Cardiology Feb 27, 2013 | 5 / 5 (8) | 0

Study raises questions about dietary fats and heart disease guidance

Dietary advice about fats and the risk of heart disease is called into question in BMJ today as a clinical trial shows that replacing saturated animal fats with omega-6 polyunsaturated vegetable fats is linked to an increa ...

Cardiology Feb 05, 2013 | 5 / 5 (1) | 1 |

An inadequate diet during pregnancy predisposes the baby to diabetes

Experts already know that pregnant women should not eat for two. A study now insists on the importance of a healthy diet as a way of avoiding increased insulin and glucose levels in the child, both of which are indicators ...

Health Dec 05, 2012 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Protein could be key for drugs that promote bone growth

Georgia Health Sciences University researchers have developed a mouse that errs on the side of making bone rather than fat, which could eventually lead to better drugs to treat inflammatory diseases such ...

Medical research Oct 15, 2012 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0 |

Scientists find molecular link to obesity and insulin resistance in mice

Flipping a newly discovered molecular switch in white fat cells enabled mice to eat a high-calorie diet without becoming obese or developing the inflammation that causes insulin resistance, report scientists ...

Medical research Sep 27, 2012 | 5 / 5 (5) | 0 |

How fat are your lab mice?

Researchers are increasingly aware that fat in some parts of the body is more harmful than fat in other places. To help determine how obesity works, scientists turn to animal models and now, they are able ...

Medical research Apr 04, 2012 | not rated yet | 0

Molecule prevents fat combustion

ETH Zurich researchers have found a new role for a well-known signalling molecule, Hif1: the molecule suppresses the burning of fat, which may possibly promote obesity in humans.

Medical research Feb 14, 2012 | 5 / 5 (1) | 1

New study may lead to better, safer drug for diabetes

A Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) study published recently in the Journal of Biological Chemistry reveals that a natural fatty acid can serve as a regulator of blood sugar levels, which may have important applications ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Nov 21, 2011 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Common class of pain drugs reduces severity of postpartum breast cancers

During involution -- the process during which milk-producing cells are killed and replaced by fat cells -- the breast is especially susceptible to the development of aggressive cancers. This study shows that NSAIDs like ibuprofen ...

Cancer Aug 11, 2011 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0 |

Ancestry plays vital role in nutrition and disease, study shows

Over the past decade, much progress has been made regarding the understanding and promise of personalized medicine. Scientists are just beginning to consider the impact of gene-diet interactions in different populations in ...

Genetics Jun 14, 2011 | not rated yet | 0 |

Eating a high-fat diet may rapidly injure brain cells that control body weight

Obesity among people who eat a high-fat diet may involve injury to neurons, or nerve cells, in a key part of the brain that controls body weight, according to the authors of a new animal study. The results will be presented ...

Medical research Jun 08, 2011 | not rated yet | 0

Do you think liposuction will get rid of that fat forever?

Liposuction has become one of the most popular plastic surgeries in the country. It has been around since 1974 and there are now more than 450,000 operations a year. But does the fat come back? A recent study by Teri L. ...

Medical research May 09, 2011 | not rated yet | 0 |