Diabetes
Voluntary exercise and energy balance
Physical exercise alone generally fails to produce meaningful weight loss in obese individuals, and reduced non-exercise activity has been suggested to explain this observation.
Mar 23, 2018
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Health
Study shows offspring response to maternal diet and male hormone
A novel study published online in The FASEB Journal identifies sex-specific responses to maternal diet and androgen (male hormone) excess among male and female animal offspring.
Mar 22, 2018
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Diabetes
Belly fat promotes diabetes under orders from liver
The fat that builds up deep in the abdomen—more than any other type of body fat—raises the risk of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. Researchers have known that abdominal fat becomes dangerous when it becomes inflamed ...
Mar 21, 2018
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Overweight & Obesity
How obesity dulls the sense of taste
Previous studies have indicated that weight gain can reduce one's sensitivity to the taste of food, and that this effect can be reversed when the weight is lost again, but it's been unclear as to how this phenomenon arises. ...
Mar 20, 2018
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Health
Cutting out late night calories
(HealthDay)—Losing weight comes down to eating fewer calories than you burn.
Mar 20, 2018
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Health
Overeating during breastfeeding may affect the health of offspring
Mothers who overeat during the period when they are breastfeeding may have children who are at increased risk of becoming obese and going through early puberty, a new study of mice suggests. Early puberty may lead to increased ...
Mar 18, 2018
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Neuroscience
New link between obesity and body temperature
Reduced ability to maintain body temperature in colder environments may contribute to the development of obesity in adulthood, suggests a new study in mice published in JNeurosci.
Mar 12, 2018
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Medical research
Enzyme plays a key role in calories burned both during obesity and dieting
Ever wonder why obese bodies burn less calories or why dieting often leads to a plateau in weight loss? In both cases the body is trying to defend its weight by regulating energy expenditure. Until now, how this happens has ...
Feb 8, 2018
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Diabetes
Peptide improves glucose and insulin sensitivity, lowers weight in mice
Treating obese mice with catestatin (CST), a peptide naturally occurring in the body, showed significant improvement in glucose and insulin tolerance and reduced body weight, report University of California San Diego School ...
Feb 8, 2018
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Medical research
Inflammation in testes could explain link between obesity and reduced fertility
A new study sheds light on how obesity may contribute to male infertility. Published in open-access journal Frontiers in Physiology, the study reports that obese men have increased levels of inflammatory markers in their ...
Feb 7, 2018
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