New findings from nutrition researchers suggest that it's not whether body fat is stored in the belly that affects metabolic risk factors for diabetes, high blood triglycerides and cardiovascular
New findings from nutrition researchers suggest that it's not whether body fat is stored in the belly that affects metabolic risk factors for diabetes, high blood triglycerides and cardiovascular
New research suggests that the use of a dietary supplement after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery can help obese patients to more quickly lose weight and to avoid deficiency of a critical B vitamin.
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Baby Riley Matthews wheezed noisily on the exam table. ''He's belly-breathing,'' the emergency-room doctor said worriedly - Riley's little abdomen was markedly rising and
You've heard it for years: to lose weight, hit the gym. But while physical activity is crucial for good health, it doesn't always melt pounds -- in fact, it can add them. Here's why (source: Time) -
Why do animals lose their appetites when sick? Should this inform our understanding of diet restriction therapies intended to increase lifespan? In this week's issue of the online open
Even as low-carbohydrate, high-protein diets have proven successful at helping individuals to rapidly lose weight, little is known about the diets' long-term effects on vascular health. Now, a study
CHICAGO -- When it comes to health care spending, an ounce of prevention is seldom worth a pound of cure. Take Mrs. Jones, a hypothetical 55-year-old obese woman at risk for diabetes. It costs $900 a
A mother wonders if a new iPhone app called Lose It is enough help to get into her new purchase. (source: New York Times) - RSS feeds and Feed widget on Feedzilla.com
Fat tissue dysfunction is caused by obesity-induced fat tissue stress: Cells over-grow as they store fat which may cause decreased oxygen delivery into the tissue; individual cells may die (at least
The more brown fat cells a person has, the lower their body mass. Therefore, manipulating the development of fat cells so that they become brown fat cells rather than white fat cells might be an
A new study in animals demonstrates that a diet rich in coconut oil protects against 'insulin resistance' (an impaired ability of cells to respond to insulin) in muscle and fat. The diet also avoids
Keeping your baby fat turns out to be a good thing, as long as it is ''brown fat'' -- the kind that burns calories, according to a study that found adults have much more of this type of fat than
