More than 500 million people worldwide suffer from diabetes. Roughly 2.6 billion are overweight. Something that both groups have in common is that the hormone insulin does not work nearly as well for them as it does for people ...
Aug 30, 2023
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Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have officially identified a central conduit to obesity: fructose.
Aug 1, 2023
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As older people start to lose some of their mental abilities, regular exercise might slow the progression to dementia, a new study indicates.
Jul 20, 2023
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A new paper sets out key research done by scientists at the University of Liverpool with partners to show that disease may be more likely to jump from animals to humans in parts of a city hosting high densities of people, ...
Jul 17, 2023
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Mopping up free radicals with antioxidants was the rage in the 1970s; people were taking large, sometimes massive doses of various general antioxidants, including vitamins and minerals, to try to remove harmful byproducts ...
Jul 10, 2023
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In June, the American Medical Association announced a new policy that encourages physicians not to focus solely on body mass index, or BMI, as a determinant of weight and health. As a ratio of an individual's weight and height, ...
Jun 28, 2023
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Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a group of synthetic chemicals found in everyday consumer products, including clothes, cosmetics, paint and non-stick kitchenwear. Due to their high resistance to degradation, ...
Jun 9, 2023
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Lean, metabolically unhealthy, people have a risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) that is higher than the risk observed in obese, metabolically healthy people. Recently, novel cluster analyses (computer-based grouping of ...
May 8, 2023
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For a team of Canadian and French researchers, dark clouds on the horizon are potentially ominous not because they signal an approaching storm—but because they were found in a recent study to carry drug-resistant bacteria ...
Apr 29, 2023
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Arterial stiffness may be a novel risk factor for metabolic syndrome in teens, a new study concludes. The paper was published in the American Journal of Physiology–Heart and Circulatory Physiology. It was conducted in collaboration ...
Apr 24, 2023
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