Obesity has become a pressing worldwide health issue, with rates steadily rising over recent decades. Beyond its well-documented associations with physical health issues, such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes, obesity ...
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Brown adipose tissue (BAT) is the primary site of non-shivering thermogenesis (NST), which protects mammals from hypothermia. NST is significantly increased in response to cold exposure and dissipating energy to produce heat. ...
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Short-term exposure to cold temperatures activates brown fat that burns calories and has become an attractive target to promote cardiometabolic health. Now new research being presented at this year's European Congress on ...
May 17, 2023
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Brown fat is not linked to cancer-associated loss of body weight and muscle mass, a common condition known as cachexia, according to a new joint study from The Rockefeller University and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center ...
Mar 22, 2023
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Mammals convert the energy stored in adipose (fat) tissue into heat via a process known as thermogenesis. This process is regulated by a family of signaling proteins called sirtuins. A recent study by researchers from Kumamoto ...
Jan 20, 2023
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Taking a dip in cold water may cut "bad" body fat in men and reduce the risk of disorders such as diabetes, suggests a major scientific review published in the International Journal of Circumpolar Health.
Sep 22, 2022
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A research group at Nagoya University in Japan has discovered a new treatment for type 1 diabetes that uses leptin, a hormone secreted by fat cells. Treating mice models of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (a condition ...
Sep 14, 2022
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Obesity is a growing global health problem, the prevalence of which has tripled since 1975. It currently affects 650 million people worldwide, and in Spain the prevalence among adults is 28%. This pathology is related to ...
Sep 13, 2022
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A major risk factor for diabetes, insulin resistance occurs when the cells of the body do not respond to insulin and cannot make use of the glucose (sugar) in the blood stream. The condition is known to increase the risk ...
Aug 5, 2022
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A novel therapy developed at the University of Alabama at Birmingham ameliorates obesity and Type 2 diabetes in mice fed a high-fat diet. The therapy acts through sustained release of nitric oxide, a gaseous signaling chemical ...
Apr 29, 2022
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