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Anti-Obesity Day 2016: Obesity a Public Health Threat

Anti-Obesity Day 2016: Obesity a Public Health Threat

Highlights Obesity is a public health threat. In the past two decades, the prevalence of obesity has doubled in adults and children and tripled in adolescents. The Anti-obesity...

Fire Therapy and Cupping Treatment For Obese Chinese Boy

Fire Therapy and Cupping Treatment For Obese Chinese Boy

Highlights An 11 year old boy from China weighs 23 stone (330 pounds) and suffers from Prader-Willi Syndrome-a rare genetic disorder. Gastric bypass surgery did not aid in weight ...

New Target Receptor FFAR2 Induces Satiety, Reduces Food Intake

New Target Receptor FFAR2 Induces Satiety, Reduces Food Intake

Highlight FFAR2 receptor is expressed in adipose tissue, pancreas, spleen, lymph nodes, bone marrow, and peripheral blood mononuclear cells. FFAR2 receptor enables specific diet...

New Subset of Neurons That Controls Hunger Mechanism Identified

New Subset of Neurons That Controls Hunger Mechanism Identified

Highlights Hunger and satiety are controlled by two kinds of neurons, Agouti-related protein (AgRP) neurons and pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) neurons. Lack of POMC neurons caused ob...

Cellular Starvation Kills Treatment Resistance Triple Negative Breast Cancer Cells

Cellular Starvation Kills Treatment Resistance Triple Negative Breast Cancer Cells

Highlights Triple negative breast cancer lacks all hormone receptors making treatment options very limited. Cystine addiction is triggered by a mechanism that many kinds of tumor ...

Gene Response Differs With the Amount and Rate of Insulin Secretion

Gene Response Differs With the Amount and Rate of Insulin Secretion

Highlights The scientists found that 278 genes responded to insulin, called insulin-responsive genes, or IRGs. The genes responded differently to variations in insulin levels and...

Teenage Obesity Permanently Affects Bone Health

Teenage Obesity Permanently Affects Bone Health

Highlights Teenage obesity is a global epidemic that is known to increase the risk for cardiovascular disease and diabetes. However, researchers have now found that teenage obesity lea...

Obesity Stands Out as Australia's Biggest Public Health Challenge

Obesity Stands Out as Australia's Biggest Public Health Challenge

Highlights Obesity is the biggest public health challenge facing the Australian population and calls for implementing a multi-faceted strategy. The need for a strategy to comba...

Yo-yo Diet Increases Risk of Heart Disease Death in Postmenopausal Women

Yo-yo Diet Increases Risk of Heart Disease Death in Postmenopausal Women

Highlights Yo-yo dieting, also known as weight cycling, refers to the repeated loss and gain of weight. The risk of death from heart disease increases among postmenopausal women...

Asian Americans at High Risk of Diabetes Ignore Regular Screening

Asian Americans at High Risk of Diabetes Ignore Regular Screening

Highlights Less than half of Asian Americans who ought to be screened for type 2 diabetes, miss it. Undiagnosed diabetes is almost three times higher among Asian Americans. Ev...

Improving Physical Fitness can Help Lower Statin-Induced Diabetes Risk

Improving Physical Fitness can Help Lower Statin-Induced Diabetes Risk

Highlights Statins are the most commonly used cholesterol-lowering drugs that prevent cardiovascular diseases. Studies have associated statins with the risk of developing type 2d...

Belt-Type Medical Device For Treating Diabetes

Belt-Type Medical Device For Treating Diabetes

Highlights Exercise is often difficult for the overweight and elderly suffering from type 2 diabetes. The function of heat shock response (HSR) is decreased in those with diabete...

Don’t Blame Your Willpower for Obesity, It’s In Your Genes

Don’t Blame Your Willpower for Obesity, It’s In Your Genes

Highlights Around 1509 people surveyed by a research team from The University of Cambridge responded to why obese people remain fat. Three-fourth of the respondents said they felt ...

Americans Getting Obese, Mississippi Leading The Way

Americans Getting Obese, Mississippi Leading The Way

Highlights The number of obese people has surpassed that of the overweight, for the first time in history in the US. More than three-quarters of American adults today are either...

Type 2 Diabetes Risk Linked to Buildup of Toxic Fat Metabolites

Type 2 Diabetes Risk Linked to Buildup of Toxic Fat Metabolites

Highlights A toxic class of fat metabolites called ceramides may increase a person’s risk of developing type 2 diabetes, claims a new study. High levels of ceramide in the adipose t...

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