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Small protein may have big role in making more bone and less fat

Chemistry /

created Jul 01, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

A small protein may have a big role in helping you make more bone and less fat, researchers say. "The pathways are parallel, and the idea is if you can somehow disrupt the fat production pathway, you will get more bone," ...





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Depression linked with accumulation of visceral fat

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Apr 28, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Numerous studies have shown that depression is associated with an increased risk of heart disease, but exactly how has never been clear.


Fat-free diet reduces liver fat in fat-free mice

Biology /

created Feb 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have uncovered crucial clues about a paradoxical disease in which patients with no body fat develop many of the health complications usually found in obese people.


Melanin production discovered in fat tissue

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 06, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A two-year study conducted by researchers at George Mason University, INOVA Fairfax Hospital and the National Cancer Institute may open the door to new therapies for combating chronic diseases associated with obesity, a condition ...


Drugs that act on 'fasting signal' may curb insulin resistance in obese

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A report in the March issue of Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication, has found that a signal known to play a role during fasting also switches on early in the fat tissue of obese mice as they progress toward type 2 diab ...


Fat transforms vitamin C from 'good cop' into 'bad cop'

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 04, 2007 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Fat in the stomach may cause vitamin C to promote, rather than prevent, the formation of certain cancer causing chemicals, reveals research published ahead of print in the journal Gut.


Your belly fat could be making you hungrier

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 16, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

The extra fat we carry around our middle could be making us hungrier, so we eat more, which in turn leads to even more belly fat. Dr. Yaiping Yang and his colleagues at the Lawson Health Research Institute affiliated with ...


Study sees possible end of fat-free diets

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 09, 2007 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (12) | comments 0

A U.S. mouse study suggests that, in the future, humans might be able to eat any kind of fat they wish without raising their risk of heart disease.


Making metabolism more inefficient can reduce obesity

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 03, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

In a discovery that counters prevailing thought, a study in mice has found that inactivating a pair of key genes involved in "fat-burning" can actually increase energy expenditure and help lower diet-induced obesity. These ...


Emotional, Not Just Physical Weight, Increases Type 2 Diabetes Risk

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Mar 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The combination of stress and obesity may significantly influence the development of type 2 diabetes among African-American women, with stress having a potentially greater role, according to researchers from ...


'Connecting the dots' in path that leads to fat

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 08, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

In the April issue of Cell Metabolism, a publication of Cell Press, researchers report the discovery of a critical early player in the path that turns cells to fat. Given that obesity—defined as an excess amount of body f ...



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