Endocrinology & Metabolism
Your metabolism changes as you age, just not when you think
(HealthDay)—Everyone knows that your metabolism peaks in your teenage years, when you're fit and active and feeling your oats.
Aug 13, 2021
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Overweight & Obesity
How human evolution busts myths about diet and exercise
Duke professor Herman Pontzer has spent his career counting calories. Not because he's watching his waistline, exactly. But because, as he sees it, "in the economics of life, calories are the currency." Every minute, everything ...
Mar 30, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
As seasons change, so should diet for breast cancer survivors
Just as the four seasons bring changes in nature, they also impact how our bodies assimilate and metabolize food. Research indicates winter brings higher metabolic rates compared with summer, and so it calls for energy efficient ...
Feb 16, 2021
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Pregnancy raises energy expenditure less than believed
Human pregnancy entails important changes in female physiology and energy expenditure throughout gestation. Among pregnant women, there is wide individual variability in the physiological changes that meet the costly energy ...
Feb 3, 2021
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Beating the bulge with a nice cup of tea
Does losing weight while you sleep sound too good to be true? According to a study by the University of Tsukuba, it seems that drinking oolong tea might help you do just that.
Jan 7, 2021
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Overweight & Obesity
Whether slow or fast, here's how your metabolism influences how many calories you burn each day
It's a common dieter's lament: "Ugh, my metabolism is so slow, I'm never going to lose any weight."
Dec 29, 2020
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Pediatrics
Lipid identified in human breast milk may play important role in early childhood weight
A lipid metabolite called 12,13-diHOME is in human breast milk and appears to be associated with beneficial infant weight gain and body composition in the early postnatal period. Moreover, maternal fitness, specifically exercise, ...
Dec 16, 2020
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Are high-protein total diet replacements the key to maintaining healthy weight?
According to the World Health Organization, obesity has nearly tripled worldwide since 1975. In 2016, for example, more than 1.9 billion adults were categorized as overweight. Of these, more than 650 million had obesity. ...
Nov 18, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Guideline updated for nutrition in chronic kidney disease
(HealthDay)—The National Kidney Foundation and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics have updated the clinical practice guideline for nutrition in chronic kidney disease (CKD); the 2020 update was published as a supplement ...
Aug 27, 2020
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Paleo fact and fiction: The key to being healthy
Humans have conquered smallpox and drastically reduced child mortality rates, yet we now face problems never seen before. Conditions like heart disease, obesity, cancer, and diabetes pose serious threats to our health. How ...
Feb 27, 2020
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