... BDNF was affected, explained Dr. Yanovski.
Studies of mice had determined that animals missing a working ... BDNF gene were prone to excessive eating and obesity. Studies in human beings, however, hadn't ...
Childhood obesity can lead to type 2 diabetes, asthma, hypertension, sleep apnea and emotional distress. Obese children and youth are likely to be obese as adults, experience more cardiovascular ...
Diets rich in omega-3 fatty acids protect the liver from damage caused by obesity and the insulin resistance it provokes. This research should give doctors and nutritionists valuable information when ...
... researchers followed 64 men over two years who participated in the Utah Obesity Study, which investigated the two-year morbidity of severely obese men undergoing Roux-en-Y gastric bypass ...
... age of 3, reports a study in Pediatrics. But don't starve your baby, an author ... to increase the chances that a child will be obese by age 3, according to a new study in the April issue of the journal ...
... Indian children, with nearly a third of them obese. Researchers were surprised to see differences by race at ... early an age. Overall, more than half a million 4-year-olds are obese, the study suggests ...
... discuss policy implications of such findings for school-based interventions to combat obesity. Their work contributes to a growing body of literature studying the impact of peers on student outcomes.
... other signs of metabolic syndrome which can lead to type 2 Diabetes and increased risk of cardiovascular disease. The study looked at a flavonoid (plant-based bioactive molecule) called naringenin.
... diet of residents or reduce obesity, according to a new RAND Corporation study. Researchers from RAND Health ... high rate of obesity in South Los Angeles," said Roland Sturm, the study's lead author ...
... waistlines, but the effect is generally small in magnitude, newly published research by the Yale School of Public Health has found. The study appears in the journal Contemporary Economic Policy.
... and automatically measured, thus identifying the optimal animal model and setting for future obesity studies.
Because the relationship between diet, psychological stress and social and environmental ...
... and exercise minutes. Enrollment for the 2007 competition on which the Obesity study is based, began in mid-December ... activity.
Wing and her co-authors said the study suggests team-based weight loss ...
Short-term complications and death rates were low following bariatric surgery to limit the amount of food that can enter the stomach, decrease absorption of food or both, according to the ...
... found in abundance in hibernating animals and newborn babies — could lead to new ways of preventing obesity. Studies have already shown that BAT activity in adults is reduced with obesity. Therefore, ...
... 300 million adults worldwide are obese, including more than a third of American adults.
Details of the obesity study, which was led by Turek, will be published online Sept. 3 by the journal Obesity ...
