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Healthy Diet & Nutrition Obesity What Is Obesity? Metabolic Signatures Offer New Comprehensive View By article As obesity has risen in the United States and all around the world, so too have many other obesity-related health … Read More→
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_ Healthy Diet & Nutrition Weight Loss The 5 Worst Myths About Obesity By article More than a third of adults in the United States, 35.1 percent, are obese, according to the Centers for Disease … Read More→
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_ Obesity Clue to Curbing Obesity By Sondra Forsyth article Preventing weight gain, obesity, and ultimately diabetes could be as simple as keeping a nuclear receptor from being activated in a small part of the brain, according to a study done by Yale School of Medicine researchers andp ublished in the August 1st 2014 issue of The Journal of Clinical Investigation (JCI).
_ Obesity Toward New TX for Obesity & Diabetes By Sondra Forsyth article Research done at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center could lead to new therapies to treat obesity and diabetes. The team found that a protein that controls when genes are switched on or off plays a key role in specific areas of the brain to regulate metabolism. The transcription factor involved ΓÇô spliced X-box binding protein 1 (Xbp1s) ΓÇô appears to influence the body's sensitivity to insulin and leptin signaling.
_ Estrogen May Affect Male Obesity By Jane Farrell article An imbalance of female hormones may contributing to obesity among men in Western nations. In a paper published in the journal PLOS ONE, researchers from the University of Adelaide's School of Medical Sciences, in Australia, said that part of the massive weight gain among men could be linked with exposure to substances containing estrogen. "Hormonally driven weight gain occurs more significantly in females than in males, and this is very clear when we look at the rates of obesity in the developing world," said medical student James Grantham, co-author of the study.