Tag: Weight-Loss

• Keep up with your weight loss goals with daily weighing

  According to research presented in the American Heart Association’s 2018 scientific meeting, daily weighing may help with weight loss goals. People who don’t weigh themselves at all or rarely were less likely to lose weight than those who weighed themselves often, Researchers examined the self-weighing patterns of 1,042 adults (78 percent male, 90 percent white, average…

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  November 5, 2018

• Aspartame in sweeteners promotes weight gain in an animal study

  A team of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators has found a possible mechanism explaining why the use of the sugar substitute aspartame might not promote weight loss. In their report published online in Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism, the researchers show how the aspartame breakdown product phenylalanine interferes with the action of an enzyme previously…

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  December 22, 2016

• Research shows red cabbage microgreens reduce weight gain and lower cholesterol in mice fed on high-fat diet

  Microgreens are sprouting up everywhere from upscale restaurants to home gardens. They help spruce up old recipes with intense flavors and colors and are packed with nutrients. Now research has shown that for mice on a high-fat diet, red cabbage microgreens helped lower their risk factors for developing cardiovascular disease and reduce their weight gain.…

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  December 15, 2016

• New approach to treating Obesity with fat burning molecule ABX300

  A small molecule ABX300 could provide valuable help in combating the global epidemic of obesity. When it was fed to obese mice, the animals’ metabolism sped up and their excess weight was shed. It is doing so by recruiting the help of a body’s own genes in countering the effects of a high-fat diet. The…

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  December 7, 2016

• Understanding signaling pathway that creates brown fat to help in fight against obesity and diabetes

  A signaling pathway in fat cells may one day provide the key to better treatments for obesity, according to new research by scientists at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. They reported their findings in Genes & Development. This image shows adipose tissue, with fat droplets in greenand blood vessels in…

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  December 6, 2016

• Research discovers beneficial role of omega-3 fatty acids on brown fat

  Omega-3 fatty acids are able to stimulate the activation of brown and beige adipose tissues, a discovery that would promote the development of new therapies for obesity and other metabolism diseases, according to a research study published in the journal Nature Communications under the supervision of Professor Francesc Villarroya, from the Department of Biochemistry and…

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  November 21, 2016

• Obese patients with monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) are at higher risk of progression to multiple myeloma

  New research shows that excess weight increases the risk that a benign blood disorder will progress into multiple myeloma, a cancer of the blood. The study, by a team at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, is published Nov. 18 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Being overweight or obese has…

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  November 20, 2016

• Research shows Weight loss can lead to strong increase in appetite

  Analysis of a trial that used the drug canagliflozin found that as people lost weight, their appetite increased proportionately, leading to consumption of more calories and weight loss plateau (leveling off). The findings provide the first measurement in people of how strongly appetite counters weight loss as part of the body’s feedback control system regulating…

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  October 18, 2016