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There are fascinating findings from a study in the United Kingdom examining how genetic mechanisms control fat metabolism. A study was published in Nature Genetics, and was part of a large multi-national collaboration involving researchers from King’s College London, University of Oxford, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, and the University of Geneva. The researchers examined […]

MyHealthNewsDaily posted an article this week with new research shedding light on why weight loss surgery often reverses diabetes, while losing weight through diet and exercise do not. The study was conducted by researchers at Duke University Medical Center and was published in the journal Science Translational Medicine. The researchers studied two groups of obese […]

This week ScienceDaily wrote about a study that found the molecules that protect the liver from fat work during daytime hours. A research team led by Mitchell Lazar, MD, PhD, who is the director of the Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, has discovered molecules that act […]

ScienceDaily posted about a study of how alcohol affects gastric bypass patients. The main finding of the study, published in the February 2011 issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons, was that individuals who have had a gastric bypass operation take longer to process alcohol. The results showed that patients who underwent […]