Science news articles about 'lean women'

... 't do the job it's supposed to do in lean people," Borer said. In research funded by the National ... did not have reduced production of leptin, as lean women did. Only moderate-intensity exercise lowered ...

... published on bmj.com today. Compared with lean women, the results show that being obese in middle ... reduced probability of healthy survival among women who live to older ages, and stress the importance ...

Physically active women are 25 per cent less likely to get breast cancer, ... ) will determine how protective the activity is against the disease. Lean women who play sport or undertake other physically ...

... , bowling) was not protective. Furthermore, vigorous activity was only protective in lean women and not those who were overweight or obese. According to Leitzmann, "Possible mechanisms through which ...

... analyzed data on 5,450 women enrolled in the Women's Health Initiative, a large multicenter ... general, have higher insulin levels compared with lean women). "This finding is potentially important because ...