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Traffic Light-coded Food Labels Encourage People to Control Total Calorie Intake

Traffic Light-coded Food Labels Encourage People to Control Total Calorie Intake

A new study by researchers at the Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania, USA, indicates that using traffic light-coded food labels, which reveal how much fat, salt, and sugar an item c...

Exposure to Endocrine-disrupting Chemicals Linked to Diabetes and Obesity

Exposure to Endocrine-disrupting Chemicals Linked to Diabetes and Obesity

Exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) is linked to two major public health problems in the world - diabetes and obesity. This was revealed in a scientific statement issued rec...

World Heart Day 2015: Healthy Heart Choices For Everyone Everywhere

World Heart Day 2015: Healthy Heart Choices For Everyone Everywhere

"Rest a While, Run a Mile"; on this Heart Day to motivate yourself to be active. Try to make simple healthy lifestyle choices such as exercising regularly, using stairs instead of elevato...

Weight-based Enoxaparin Dosing Better Prevents Venous Thromboembolism in High-Risk Women

Weight-based Enoxaparin Dosing Better Prevents Venous Thromboembolism in High-Risk Women

A new study published in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology indicates that weight-based enoxaparin dosing is significantly more effective than body mass index (BMI) based dosing for veno...

Weight Loss Combined With Vitamin D Reduces Chronic Inflammation Linked to Cancers

Weight Loss Combined With Vitamin D Reduces Chronic Inflammation Linked to Cancers

Combination of weight loss and Vitamin D can reduce chronic inflammation, revealed a new study. For the very first time, researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center found this by...

Hormone Deficiency in the Brain may be Responsible for Overeating

Hormone Deficiency in the Brain may be Responsible for Overeating

Do you still find yourself going for that extra piece of chocolate fudge cake even though you are not feeling hungry? Well, that might be due to the absence of a hormone in your brain wh...

Miracle Berries May Not Evoke More Sweetness With Enhanced Sourness

Miracle Berries May Not Evoke More Sweetness With Enhanced Sourness

Miraculin is a sugar substitute extracted from the fruit of Synsepalum dulcificum. The fruit is famously known as miracle berry that, when eaten, causes sour foods subsequently consumed to...

Apple Consumption to Boost Diet and Combat Obesity in Children

Apple Consumption to Boost Diet and Combat Obesity in Children

Childhood obesity is a growing health problem that has reached epidemic proportions in many parts of the world, especially in countries like the US, India and China and other nations in th...

Influence of Body Mass Index on Renal Transplant Outcomes

Influence of Body Mass Index on Renal Transplant Outcomes

In a recent study published online in BMC Medicine, researchers state that following renal transplants, several outcomes are better in people with a lower body mass index (BMI) as compar...

Celastrol may be Effective in Obesity – However Needs Clinical Trials for Approval

Celastrol may be Effective in Obesity – However Needs Clinical Trials for Approval

Celastrol, a compound found in the Chinese herb Tripterygium Wilfordi (thunder god vine) has been found to be effective in reducing weight in obese mice . However, it is still a lon...

FDA to Phase Out Trans-Fat from Food

FDA to Phase Out Trans-Fat from Food

Trans fats, also referred to as partially hydrogenated oils have been associated with cardiovascular diseases. They have been popularly used in preparation of processed foods because of thei...

Newer Cholesterol Lowering Drug Closer to Getting FDA Approval

Newer Cholesterol Lowering Drug Closer to Getting FDA Approval

A new cholesterol lowering drug evolocumab has taken one step further to being available in the market. It has cleared the FDA's cardio drugs committee and now awaits the approval of the FDA...

Influence of Body Fat on Brain Function

Influence of Body Fat on Brain Function

Energy levels in the brain are controlled by an enzyme released by fat tissues in the body, reports a study conducted on mice at the Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis. T...

One Yes for Organ Donation Can Save Nine Lives: Remarkable Story of Transplant Coordinator’s Training Program

One Yes for Organ Donation Can Save Nine Lives: Remarkable Story of Transplant Coordinator’s Training Program

(First part of exclusive three-part series on organ donation by Medindia) A single deceased donor can save up to nine lives through organ transplantation and help over 50 patients with ...

Walking for 2 Minutes will Improve Your Longevity

Walking for 2 Minutes will Improve Your Longevity

Getting up from your desk, or wherever you’ve been sitting, and walking for two minutes every hour can help reduce the negative health effects from prolonged sitting, says a new study fro...

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