Aug
11
Researchers Receive $1 Million NIH Grant To Improve Health In Northern California Native American Communities
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UC Davis School of Medicine researchers will train Native American communities in Northern California to develop and implement culturally appropriate interventions to improve their health by decreasing obesity and type-2 diabetes, through a $1 million research grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health…
Aug
4
Keeping Children Healthy And Fit By Pairing Adolescents With College Student Mentors
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A program pairing healthy young adults with urban middle school students helped the adolescents adopt healthy habits, active lifestyles and a healthy weight, according to a new study from the University of Maryland School of Medicine…
Aug
4
As if fat weren’t troublesome enough, a research team at the University of Colorado School of Medicine has discovered a new type of fat cell with potentially harmful characteristics. The new fat cells arise from stem cells in the bone marrow that travel through the blood stream to fat tissue. They are termed bone marrow progenitor-derived adipocytes…
Aug
3
Different Outcomes On The Same Diet: The Path To Obesity Becomes Clearer
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Why is it that two people can consume the same high fat, high-calorie Western diet and one becomes obese and prone to diabetes while the other maintains a slim frame? This question has long baffled scientists, but a study by Yale School of Medicine researchers provides a simple explanation: weight is set before birth in the developing brain…
Jul
27
Many Knee And Hip Replacement Patients Experience Weight Decrease After Surgery
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A Mount Sinai School of Medicine study has found that patients often exhibit a significant decrease in weight and body mass index (BMI) after undergoing knee or hip replacement surgery (arthroplasty). The study is the first of its type to correct for the annual increase in BMI typically found in North Americans between the ages of 29 to 73 years. The study was recently published in Orthopedics…
Jun
18
Identification Of Protein That Modulates Metabolic Dysfunction In Obesity
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Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have discovered that Sfrp5, which refers to secreted frizzled-related protein 5, is an anti-inflammatory adipokine whose expression is disrupted in animal models of obesity and type 2 diabetes. The findings, which currently appear on-line in Science, may provide a new way of targeting metabolic disease, specifically obesity…
Jun
17
Blocking Hormone Lowers Sensitivity To Sugar, Opening Door For Food Additives Or Drugs
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A hormone that helps to regulate blood sugar levels may also influence a person’s sensitivity to sweet-tasting foods, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. They found that blocking the tongue’s ability to respond to the hormone known as glucagon decreases the taste system’s sensitivity to sweetness…
May
27
Bacteria may play more of a role in people predisposed to obesity than previously thought, according to studies presented by University of Maryland School of Medicine researchers at the 110th general meeting of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) in San Diego…
May
25
Obesity In Teen Girls May Lead To Depressive Symptoms
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Researchers, led by Kerri Boutelle, PhD, associate professor of pediatrics and psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have found that obesity is a risk factor for depressive symptoms, but not for clinical depression, suggesting that weight status could play a part in the development of depression in some adolescent girls…
May
24
Abdominal Fat Could Increase Risk Of Developing Dementia - Alzheimer’s Society Comment
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Higher levels of abdominal fat in middle age could increase your risk of developing dementia according a new study. The preliminary findings of research by the University School of Medicine in Boston are published in Annals of Neurology. The study of more than 700 middle aged people found an inverse association between visceral fat levels in the abdomen and total brain volume…