Neuroscience
Obesity tied to weakened response to taste
Obesity is connected with a reduced response to taste, according to a new study featuring faculty at Binghamton University, State of University of New York.
Aug 26, 2019
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Health
Exposure to common chemicals in plastics linked to childhood obesity
Exposure to common chemicals in plastics and canned foods may play a role in childhood obesity, according to a study published in the Journal of the Endocrine Society.
Jul 25, 2019
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Overweight & Obesity
Evolution could explain why staying slim is so tough
(HealthDay)—It's not easy maintaining a healthy weight. Even when you manage to drop a few pounds, they often return.
Jul 16, 2019
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Diabetes
Serum free fatty acid level verifies fasting state in children
(HealthDay)—Serum free fatty acid (FFA) concentrations can distinguish children's fed and fasting states, according to a study published online May 3 in Pediatrics.
May 3, 2019
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Health
The exercise conundrum: sometimes active people put on more weight than couch potatoes – here's why
Governments are always telling us to eat less and exercise more to be healthier, but this presents an obvious problem. Being active is liable to make you hungrier, so there's a risk you end up eating extra to compensate, ...
Mar 29, 2019
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Surgery
Obesity surgery leads to emergence of new microbial strains in the human fecal community
Using a unique bioinformatics technique developed at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, UAB researchers have detected the emergence of new strains of microbes in the human fecal microbiota after obesity surgery. These ...
Jan 8, 2019
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Health
The obesity epidemic—understanding how the brain responds to food choices
Food! What a minefield of choices: lifestyle choices, cost choices, taste choices. Some food is good for you and some is not. We know for example that a doughnut is not as beneficial as an apple. Yet most of us would prefer ...
Mar 27, 2018
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Neuroscience
Obesity trigger identified within the human gut
The key chemical for happiness and sadness, serotonin, is also a force in our body's weight gain and calorie control, and scientists say more research could reduce obesity rates.
Mar 22, 2018
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Overweight & Obesity
How genes, pedigree, and environment influence adult obesity
In 2004, the monkeys of the Vervet Research Colony got an unpleasant surprise. Scientists had noticed that the 350-or-so African green monkeys, also called vervets, were getting a little chunky, so they changed the animals' ...
Jan 22, 2018
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Health
Could sugar be responsible for the obesity and diabetes epidemics?
The idea that sugar could be a fundamental cause of the global obesity and diabetes epidemics, with deleterious effects on the human body that go beyond just empty calories, should be considered seriously again, argues journalist ...
Jan 3, 2018
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