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Weight gain is an increase in body weight. This can be either an increase in muscle mass, fat deposits, or excess fluids such as water.

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Late-Night Snacks: Worse Than You Think

Medicine & Health / Health

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- Eat less, exercise more. Now there is new evidence to support adding another "must" to the weight-loss mantra: eat at the right time of day.


Infant weight gain linked to childhood obesity

Infant weight gain linked to childhood obesity

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 30, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- As childhood obesity continues its thirty-year advance from occasional curiosity to cultural epidemic, health care providers are struggling to find out why--and the reasons are many. Increasingly ...


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Laptops Linked to Male Infertility

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 12, 2009 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (14) | comments 2

While fatherhood might be far from the minds of most young men, behavior patterns they establish early on may impact their ability to become a dad later in life. Excessive laptop use tops this list of liabilities, ...


Increased food intake alone explains the increase in body weight in the US

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 08, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (8) | comments 7

New research that uses an innovative approach to study, for the first time, the relative contributions of food and exercise habits to the development of the obesity epidemic has concluded that the rise in obesity in the United ...


Scientists reveal key enzyme in fat absorption

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes of Cardiovascular Disease (GICD) have found that a key enzyme involved in absorbing fat may also be a key to reducing it. The enzyme, acyl CoA: monoacylglycerol acyltransferase 2 or ...


Researchers tie genes, lower reward response to weight gain

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Oct 16, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The brains of obese people seem to respond to a tasty treat with less vigor than the brains of their leaner peers, suggesting obese people may overeat to compensate for a reduced reward response, according to a new brain ...


Gene produces hormones that lead to obesity

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jul 14, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Obesity and common weight gain share a genetic basis. Professor Philippe Froguel, from Imperial College in Great Britain, and his team from the laboratoire Génomique et physiologie moléculaire des maladies ...


Overeating can set stage for obesity, researchers say

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

It doesn't seem like a fair fight. In one corner loomed the Thanksgiving table, groaning with poultry, pie and mashed potatoes.


Crossing paths: Pinpointing when rates of binge eating converge across races

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Existing research shows that rates of binge eating among adult women is virtually identical across race. However, among college age women, it's a different story: Caucasian women are more apt to exhibit binge eating behaviors ...


Mice can eat 'junk' and not get fat

Biology / Biotechnology

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

A study in the September 4th issue of the journal Cell identifies a gene that springs into action in response to a high fat diet. Mice that lack the gene become essentially immune to growing obese, regardless of their eating ...


Food stamp use linked to weight gain, study finds

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The U.S. Food Stamp Program may help contribute to obesity among its users, according to a new nationwide study that followed participants for 14 years.


Study identifies women at risk of gaining excessive weight with injectable birth control

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have identified women who are likely to gain weight while using depot medroxyprogesterone acetate, more commonly known as Depo-Provera or the birth control ...


Worries about paying bills can cause people to pack on pounds

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Stressing out can cause people to gain weight, according to a study appearing in the July 15 issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology. This new study is believed to be one of the first of its kind to look at the relati ...


Expected Calorie Content Influences Consumers' Reactions to Menu-Board Nutrition Information

Other Sciences / Economics

created Jun 18, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new study by marketing researchers at the University of Arkansas indicates that many consumers have a poor understanding of the calorie, fat and sodium content of quick-service restaurant meals. This finding is especially ...


Strict maternal feeding practices not linked to child weight gain

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new study published online in the journal Obesity provides further evidence that strict maternal control over eating habits - such as determining how much a child should eat and coaxing them to eat certain foods - duri ...