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Military leaders point to schools in U.S. fat fight
• Children's Health • • Dieting • • Fat, Dietary • Sep 25 12
Former U.S. military leaders have identified a latent threat to the potential for a leaner, more agile fighting force: the school vending machine.
Obese adults with excess abdominal fat, insulin resistance may have higher risk of type 2 diabetes
• Diabetes • • Fat, Dietary • • Obesity • Sep 19 12
Obese adults with excess visceral fat (fat located inside the abdominal cavity, around the body’s internal organs) and biomarkers of insulin resistance had an…
A carefully scheduled high-fat diet resets metabolism and prevents obesity, in Hebrew University research
• Dieting • • Fat, Dietary • • Obesity • Sep 12 12
New research from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem shows that a carefully scheduled high-fat diet can lead to a reduction in body weight and…
Zebrafish research shows how dietary fat regulates cholesterol absorption
• Fat, Dietary • • Food & Nutrition • Jun 22 12
Buttery shrimp. Fried eggs. Burgers and fries. New research suggests there may be a biological reason why fatty and cholesterol-rich foods are so appealing…
California teens eat fewer calories in school
• Dieting • • Fat, Dietary • May 18 12
High school kids in California, a state that limits the junk food sold in vending machines, eat fewer calories in school than kids in…
Study sheds new light on importance of human breast milk ingredient
• Dieting • • Fat, Dietary • May 14 12
A new University of Illinois study shows that human milk oligosaccharides, or HMO, produce short-chain fatty acids that feed a beneficial microbial population in…
America’s hatred of fat hurts obesity fight
• Fat, Dietary • • Obesity • May 12 12
One night when Lynn McAfee was 5 years old, her psychologically troubled mother left her at the side of a road as punishment for…
Forced to be fat
• Fat, Dietary • • Obesity • May 10 12
Americans are fatter than ever, but it’s not their fault. That’s according to the latest effort to solve an obesity crisis in the only…
U.S. government urged to fight fat at school
• Fat, Dietary • • Obesity • • Public Health • May 09 12
A coalition of health advocacy groups on Wednesday urged the U.S. government to put more resources into school-based efforts to improve health and fight…
Worm turns sheep clone to “good” fat: China scientists
• Fat, Dietary • Apr 25 12
Chinese scientists have cloned a genetically modified sheep containing a “good” type of fat found naturally in nuts, seeds, fish and leafy greens that…
How fat are your lab mice?
• Fat, Dietary • Apr 04 12
Researchers are increasingly aware that fat in some parts of the body is more harmful than fat in other places. To help determine how…
Red wine, fruit compound could help block fat cell formation
• Fat, Dietary • • Food & Nutrition • Apr 04 12
A compound found in red wine, grapes and other fruits, and similar in structure to resveratrol, is able to block cellular processes that allow…
Can our genes be making us fat?
• Fat, Dietary • • Genetics • • Obesity • Mar 23 12
While high-fat foods are thought to be of universal appeal, there is actually a lot of variation in the extent to which people like…
New plan to cut the fat of the military
• Fat, Dietary • • Obesity • • Public Health • Feb 09 12
Obese Americans in the military are a national security hazard and first lady Michelle Obama wants to see that change.
When Overeating, Calories, Not Protein, Contribute to Increase in Body Fat
• Fat, Dietary • • Obesity • Jan 07 12
In a study conducted among 25 healthy individuals living in a controlled setting who were randomized to overconsumption of different levels of protein diets,…
Study finds healthy hearts in fat bodies
• Fat, Dietary • • Heart • Sep 14 11
Carrying extra pounds doesn’t necessarily mean your heart is ailing, according to Greek researchers.
They found less than 10 percent of healthy obese people…
Body’s natural marijuana-like chemicals make fatty foods hard to resist
• Fat, Dietary • • Obesity • Jul 04 11
Recent studies have revealed potato chips and french fries to be the worst contributors to weight gain – and with good reason. Have you…
Genetic study shows that low body fat may not lower risk for heart disease and diabetes
• Diabetes • • Fat, Dietary • • Heart • Jun 27 11
Having a lower percentage of body fat may not always lower your risk for heart disease and diabetes, according to a study by an…
New advances in lipid genetics lead to better detection and prevention of major diseases
• Diabetes • • Fat, Dietary • • Heart • • Public Health • May 30 11
Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Studying the genetic make-up of different varieties of lipids (fatty molecules) in the blood plasma of an individual can lead to…
Turning ‘Bad’ Fat Into ‘Good’: a Future Treatment for Obesity?
• Fat, Dietary • • Obesity • May 03 11
By knocking down the expression of a protein in rat brains known to stimulate eating, Johns Hopkins researchers say they not only reduced the…
Researchers find link between common dietary fat, intestinal microbes and heart disease
• Fat, Dietary • • Heart • • Obesity • Apr 06 11
A new pathway has been discovered that links a common dietary lipid and intestinal microflora with an increased risk of heart disease, according to…
Better than a BMI? New obesity scale proposed
• Fat, Dietary • • Obesity • Mar 07 11
Scientists have developed a new way to measure whether a person is too fat without having people step on the scale.
What Do Fats Do in the Body?
• Fat, Dietary • Feb 14 11
It’s common knowledge that too much cholesterol and other fats can lead to disease, and that a healthy diet involves watching how much fatty…
Fat associated with chemical changes in DNA that may help explain obesity-related disease
• Fat, Dietary • • Obesity • Jan 20 11
Fat appears to associate with some distinctive chemical changes in the DNA – a finding that may help explain why obesity can increase the…
‘Yo-yo’ effect of slimming diets explained
• Dieting • • Fat, Dietary • Jan 13 11
If you want to lose the kilos you’ve put on over Christmas, you may be interested in knowing that the hormones related to appetite…