Archive for the ‘Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness’ Category
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
The collection of symptoms that is the metabolic syndrome - insulin resistance, high cholesterol, fatty liver, and a greater risk for diabetes, heart disease, and stroke - are all related to obesity, but, according to a review in the March 9th issue of the Cell Press publication Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism, not in the way you probably think they are...
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
A new study that followed participants for 20 years shows both weight and risk for diabetes decreased for people in communities where fast food prices increased. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study, published in the March 8, 2010, issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, also showed the reverse when fast food prices fell, then consumption, weight and diabetes risks rose...
Thursday, March 4th, 2010
Over 60 per cent of Canadians are classified as overweight or obese. This epidemic is a concern for experts around the world. One of the major problems is high levels of lipids in the blood, which can lead to cardiovascular disease, fatty liver disease and Type 2 diabetes. But a University of Alberta researcher has taken a major step in protecting people against these diseases...
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Efforts to prevent childhood obesity should begin far earlier than currently thought - perhaps even before birth - especially for minority children, according to a new study that tracked 1,826 women from pregnancy through their children's first five years of life...
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
A study by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers found that obese children as young as 3 years old have elevated levels of C-reactive protein, a marker of inflammation that in adults is considered an early warning sign for possible future heart disease...
Friday, February 26th, 2010
Severely obese teenagers in Scotland are to be offered obesity medicine and gastric band surgery as part of a new range of possible treatment options to reduce weight. SIGN , who develop clinical guidelines in Scotland, have recommended new guidelines on managing obesity and have set out a new range of treatments to manage and reduce obesity in children and young people...
Thursday, February 25th, 2010
Dr. Francesco Rubino, chief of gastrointestinal metabolic surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, is now enrolling overweight and mildly obese patients -- those with a body mass index (BMI) of 28 to 35 -- in a study of gastric bypass surgery aimed at reversing Type 2 diabetes...
Thursday, February 25th, 2010
Dr. Francesco Rubino, chief of gastrointestinal metabolic surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, is now enrolling overweight and mildly obese patients -- those with a body mass index (BMI) of 28 to 35 -- in a study of gastric bypass surgery aimed at reversing Type 2 diabetes...
Thursday, February 25th, 2010
The adverse affects of being overweight are not limited to physical function but also extend to neurological function, according to research in the latest issue of The Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological and Medical Sciences (Volume 65A, Number 1). The publication presents a collection of ten articles highlighting new findings related to obesity in older persons...
Monday, February 15th, 2010
New research by University of Cincinnati (UC) scientists implicates a new protein in obesity development and highlights a protein pair's "team effort" in regulating obesity and insulin resistance. Jorge Moscat, PhD, chair of UC's cancer and cell biology department, says that proteins p62 and ERK are involved in adipogeneis, (the development of adipocytes, or fat cells)...
Friday, February 12th, 2010
While many adults consider a chubby baby healthy, too many plump infants grow up to be obese teens, saddling them with Type-2 diabetes, elevated cholesterol and high blood pressure, according to an article published this month in the journal Clinical Pediatrics (published by SAGE)...
Friday, February 12th, 2010
GI Dynamics, a leader in non-surgical, endoscopic treatments for type 2 diabetes and obesity, announced that its EndoBarrier™ Gastrointestinal Liner and EndoBarrier Flow Restrictor will be highlighted by Alex Escalona, M.D...
Thursday, February 11th, 2010
The number of people admitted to hospital because they are obese increased by almost 60 per cent last year, according to new figures released today by the NHS Information Centre. The survey also shows that the number of people having weight-loss surgery rose by 55 per cent...
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
Duke researchers report in the FASEB Journal that maternal obesity dramatically increases the risk of diseases related to inflammation gone awry: heart disease, stroke and more As if there are not enough reasons for obese people to lose weight, a new research report published online in The FASEB Journal, adds several more...
Saturday, February 6th, 2010
Overeating in mice triggers a molecule once considered to be only involved in detecting and fighting viruses to also destroy normal metabolism, leading to insulin resistance and setting the stage for diabetes...
Friday, February 5th, 2010
The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and Geisinger Health System have announced the signing of a strategic research agreement that provides for a focused look at the gaps in clinical medicine where biomedical research can make a difference. One of the first projects will focus on the causes of obesity, diabetes and other metabolic conditions...
Thursday, February 4th, 2010
Although obesity is a risk factor for diabetes and coronary heart disease worldwide, only some obese individuals go on to develop these metabolic complications, while others are relatively protected. Defining these protective factors could help scientists prevent disease in the wider population...
Thursday, February 4th, 2010
Gail Donnelly's classmates nicknamed her "Knobby" because she was so skinny all her bones seemed to poke out from under her skin. But when Donnelly turned 27, that once knobby frame disappeared under mysteriously ballooning weight. Her diet hadn't changed, she was still walking several miles a day, but she gained 50 pounds in just six months. Her doctor thought the cause was ovarian cysts...
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
METABOLIC DISEASE: Making macrophages protect against effects of obesity It is well known that diet-induced obesity increases dramatically a person's risk of developing type 2 diabetes. One reason underlying this susceptibility is that diet-induced obesity triggers the accumulation of inflammatory immune cells known as macrophages in fat tissue known as white adipose tissue (WAT)...
Monday, February 1st, 2010
Many of the health benefits of aerobic exercise are due to the most recent exercise session (rather than weeks, months and even years of exercise training), and the nature of these benefits can be greatly affected by the food we eat afterwards, according to a study published in the Journal of Applied Physiology (http://jap.physiology.org)...
Saturday, January 30th, 2010
New studies show that overweight and obese people using alli® (orlistat 60 mg) with a reduced calorie, lower-fat diet can significantly reduce weight, visceral fat, and waist circumference and therefore may reduce their risk of type 2 diabetes, hypertension, heart disease and stroke.1,2 The studies were presented at the 1st International Congress on Abdominal Obesity in Hong Kong...