The results of two recent studies have provided further insight into how exercise may influence our desire to eat—and not through changes in hormones as previously thought, but through changes in the brain. The research suggests that exercise influences appetite through altering how specific parts of the brain react to the sight of food. The [...]
April 12, 2012
Good news for wine drinkers: Researchers at Purdue University have discovered a compound in red wine that may keep fat cells from developing! The compound is found in red wine, grapes, and a few other fruits such blueberries and passion fruit. It is similar in structure to resveratrol, a key ingredient in red wine that [...]
April 3, 2012
New research presented at last month’s American Heart Association meeting found that people who are genetically-inclined toward obesity can decrease the effect of obesity-related genes by 50 percent by spending an hour each day briskly walking. Researchers from Harvard studied data on more than 12,000 people who were participating in two studies by health professionals. [...]
March 26, 2012
25.8 million people in the United States have diabetes, according to the American Diabetes Association. Because of the current prevalence of this disease, the expected increase in people suffering from it (an estimated 79 million US adults & children are pre-diabetic), and the devastating effects the disease can have (including blindness, amputation, heart disease and [...]
March 20, 2012
March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month and according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), colorectal cancer – along with several other cancers such as esophagus, pancreas, breast, endometrium, kidney, thyroid and gallbladder – has been shown to have a significant association with obesity. A higher body mass index (BMI) is strongly associated with [...]
March 13, 2012
Diabetes may start in the intestines, not the pancreas or liver, as long-held theories about the causes of the disease have proposed. Diabetes is a metabolism disorder where the quantity of glucose (blood sugar) is too elevated, because either the body does not produce enough insulin, produces no insulin, or has cells that do not [...]
March 4, 2012
New research demonstrates troubling implications of the United States’ soaring childhood obesity rates: a study found that the length of time a person carries excess weight directly contributes to an increased risk for type 2 diabetes. This means that children today have an increased risk of developing diabetes at some point in their lives because [...]
February 29, 2012
At the Minimally Invasive Surgery Symposium (MISS) 2012, Dr. John Morton, Director of Bariatric Surgery at Stanford, gave a presentation on his research about alcohol metabolism and addiction following weight loss surgery. His research was in response to some recent headlines about the possibility of addiction transfer after surgery. One of the headlines that he pointed [...]
February 18, 2012
One of the largest studies conducted on lumbar spine disc degeneration found that overweight and obese people are at significantly increased risk for the painful back condition. The study evaluated approximately 2600 Southern Chinese volunteers through radiographic and clinical assessment, including measuring weight and height. Nine percent of the study participants were obese, 36 percent [...]
February 2, 2012
A new study of postmenopausal women found that older women who lose weight tend to gain it back again, and as fat rather than muscle. At the start of the study, the 78 women with an average age of 58, had lost about twelve percent of their body weight. Six months later, 68 percent of [...]
April 28, 2012
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