Omega-3 fatty acids are able to stimulate the activation of brown and beige adipose tissues, a discovery that would promote the development of new therapies for obesity and other metabolism diseases, according to a research ...
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About one third of cancer patients die because of cachexia - an involuntary weight loss, characterized primarily by muscle wasting and metabolic changes, which cannot be addressed or treated solely with increased food intake. ...
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A team of scientists from the University of Granada, along with their collaborators, has shown that consuming canola oil (an improved form of rapeseed, with less than 2 percent erucic acid) enriched with omega-3 reduces the ...
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Research in Singapore finds that babies have lower abdominal fat when their mothers' diet is relatively protein-rich and low in carbohydrate and fat during pregnancy. A*STAR researcher Mary Chong says this revelation may ...
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A molecular mechanism that influences the development of fat cells has been identified by A*STAR researchers. The discovery suggests that an excessive amount of vitamin A could have a role in obesity, and the work could lead ...
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New research, published online in The FASEB Journal, suggests that activation of a chemical called Beta-LGND2 by the estrogen receptor Beta (ER-Beta) reduces obesity and metabolic diseases in mice by converting bad fat (white ...
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Fructose, once seen as diabetics' alternative to glucose, is fast-tracked to the liver in diabetic mice and contributes to metabolic diseases, according to new research from Harvard University.
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When people are deprived of food, a number of biological mechanisms are set in motion to adapt the body's metabolism to the conditions of scarcity. One of these processes has been revealed by a team of Belgian researchers, ...
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Metabolic syndrome, a cluster of cardiometabolic conditions, may be a biological mechanism linking posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to structural brain abnormalities, according to a new study in Biological Psychiatry. ...
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Scientists at the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) have identified a previously unknown way that stress hormones (glucocorticoids) shut off genes in the liver to help the body adapt to the fasting ...
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