News tagged with gain control

Enriched skimmed milk may curb frequency of gout flare-ups

A daily dose of skimmed milk, enriched with two components found in dairy products, may help to curb the frequency of painful gout flare-ups, indicates research published online in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

All weight gain is not the same: When overeating, calories, not protein, contribute to increase in body fat

In a study conducted among 25 healthy individuals living in a controlled setting who were randomized to overconsumption of different levels of protein diets, those consuming the low-protein diet had less weight gain compared ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Enzyme boosts metabolism, prevents weight gain in mice

In a new study, scientists report that they substantially curbed weight gain, improved metabolism, and improved the efficacy of insulin in mice by engineering them to express a specific human enzyme in their fat tissue. Although ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Obesity rate will reach at least 42 percent, say models of social contagion

Researchers at Harvard University say America's obesity epidemic won't plateau until at least 42 percent of adults are obese, an estimate derived by applying mathematical modeling to 40 years of Framingham Heart Study data.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 04, 2010 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

'Squeezing' light into quantum dots

(PhysOrg.com) -- “Quantum wells have been instrumental in telecommunications, enabling light amplification,” Patanjali Kambhampati tells PhysOrg.com, “but theory has suggested that a very small - colloidal - quantum dot co ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Apr 01, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (11) | comments 2 feature