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Released: 22-Sep-2017 5:05 PM EDT
Is Sitting Really ‘the New Smoking?’
Texas A&M University

It’s a popular catchphrase: “Sitting is the new smoking.” A phrase that is often attributed to James A. Levine, MD, PhD, of the Mayo Clinic, but even he seems to have pulled back from that characterization a little.

13-Sep-2017 4:15 PM EDT
Skin Patch Dissolves “Love Handles” in Mice
Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Researchers have developed a medicated skin patch that can turn energy-storing white fat into energy-burning brown fat locally while raising the body’s metabolism. The patch could be used to burn off pockets of unwanted fat and treat metabolic disorders like obesity and diabetes.

   
Released: 11-Sep-2017 3:30 PM EDT
Researchers Find That Body Clock, Gut Microbiota Work Together to Pack on the Pounds
UT Southwestern Medical Center

UT Southwestern researchers have uncovered new clues about how gut bacteria and the body’s circadian clock work together to promote body fat accumulation.

6-Sep-2017 1:05 PM EDT
Study Shows So-Called ‘Healthy Obesity’ Is Harmful to Cardiovascular Heath
University of Birmingham

Clinicians are being warned not to ignore the increased cardiovascular health risks of those who are classed as either ‘healthy obese’ or deemed to be ‘normal weight’ but have metabolic abnormalities such as diabetes.

Released: 23-Aug-2017 9:00 AM EDT
Psychotic Disorders and Obesity: New Report Shows Big Waistlines Are to Blame
Florida Atlantic University

A number of factors, including obesity, shorten the lifespan for those with schizophrenia by 20 years and by 10 years for those with bipolar disorder, compared to the general population. In the first study to compare long-term weight gain across psychotic disorders, researchers show that expanding waistlines and the way body fat is distributed are largely to blame.

3-Aug-2017 7:00 AM EDT
Obese Heart Surgery Patients Require Significantly More ICU Resources
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

After heart surgery, obese patients tend to require additional intensive care unit (ICU) services and longer recovery times when compared to non-obese patients. This results in more expensive, more labor-intensive care.

Released: 8-Aug-2017 3:30 PM EDT
Equality Isn’t Cutting It: New Campaign From American Heart Association and American Academy of Pediatrics Works for Health Equity, Too
Newswise

Join our virtual press briefing on August 10 at 11 am ET to hear from these organizations about new research, stories of successful programs in communities, and experts who can speak to the need to ensure all children have access to nutritious food and safe places to be physically active.

       
31-Jul-2017 10:05 AM EDT
Gene Therapy via Skin Could Treat Many Diseases, Even Obesity
University of Chicago Medical Center

A research team has overcome challenges that have limited gene therapy. They demonstrate how their novel approach with skin transplantation could enable a wide range of gene-based therapies to treat human diseases. The researchers provide “proof-of-concept,” treating mice with two common related human ailments: type-2 diabetes and obesity.

Released: 10-Jul-2017 1:05 PM EDT
Do Breathing Issues Hamper Exercise in Overweight Preteens?
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Do overweight children have more breathing limitations, intolerance for exercise, and breathlessness when exercising than normal weight children, leading to possible misdiagnosis for conditions such as asthma?

Released: 23-Jun-2017 7:05 AM EDT
Does the Emperor Have Clothes?
Harvard Medical School

Decades after the discovery of anti-obesity hormone, scant evidence that leptin keeps lean people lean, scientists caution

Released: 26-May-2017 11:00 AM EDT
Dramatic Shift in Gut Microbes and Their Metabolites Seen After Weight Loss Surgery
Arizona State University (ASU)

Obesity is linked with the composition of microbes in the human gut. In new research, bacterial composition in the gut, as well as accompanying metabolites are shown to undergo a profound and permanent shift, with microbial diversity significantly increasing following gastric bypass surgery.

Released: 18-May-2017 11:05 AM EDT
Another Reason to Exercise: Burning Bone Fat – a Key to Better Bone Health
University of North Carolina Health Care System

For the first time, UNC School of Medicine researchers show that exercising burns the fat found within bone marrow and offers evidence that this process improves bone quality and the amount of bone in a matter of weeks.

   
Released: 2-May-2017 11:05 AM EDT
Can You Feast While Dieting?
University of Illinois Chicago

Alternate-day fasting diets are just as effective as diets that restrict calories every day, researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago report. The study, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, followed 100 obese adults for a year.

Released: 25-Apr-2017 1:05 PM EDT
‘Diet’ Products Can Make You Fat, Study Shows
University of Georgia

High-fat foods are often the primary target when fighting obesity, but sugar-laden “diet” foods could be contributing to unwanted weight gain as well.

Released: 18-Apr-2017 3:00 PM EDT
Study Shows High-Salt Diet Decreases Thirst, Increases Hunger
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

When you eat salty food, you get thirsty and drink water. Right? Maybe in the short-term -- but within 24 hours, you actually get less thirsty because your body starts to conserve and produce more water.

Released: 6-Apr-2017 9:00 AM EDT
Expanding Waistlines and Metabolic Syndrome: Researchers Warn of New ‘Silent Killer’
Florida Atlantic University

For decades, American waistlines have been expanding and there is increasing cause for alarm. Researchers make the case that metabolic syndrome is the new “silent killer,” analogous to hypertension in the 1970s. As it turns out, the “love handle” can be fatal.

Released: 23-Mar-2017 12:05 PM EDT
SLU Scientists Take Aim at Diabetes and Obesity with Exercise in a Pill
Saint Louis University Medical Center

With a series of new grants, Saint Louis University researchers will develop the potential of two nuclear receptors that control muscle metabolism.

Released: 9-Mar-2017 10:05 AM EST
Discovery of a New Metabolic Pathway of a Known Lipid Has Implications in Cancer, Obesity
Stony Brook University

A collaborative Stony Brook University research team has discovered a novel metabolic pathway of the lipid ceramide, which is involved in cell death.

Released: 6-Mar-2017 9:00 AM EST
Political Affiliation, Weight Influence Your Opinion on Fighting Obesity, Study Finds
University of Kansas

Self-reported overweight people, if they were Democrats are more likely to believe genetic factors cause obesity, while Republicans who see themselves are overweight still assign eating habits and lifestyle choices as the cause, according to a new study by two University of Kansas researchers

Released: 6-Feb-2017 1:05 PM EST
Researchers Identify Ion Channel Necessary for Hormone and Anti-Obesity Drug to Suppress Eating
UT Southwestern Medical Center

UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have identified an ion channel required for brain cells to suppress eating behavior in response to the hormone leptin or to the anti-obesity drug lorcaserin.

   
Released: 23-Jan-2017 8:00 AM EST
Car Crash-Test Dummies Move Beyond Young, Thin and Male
Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan

Using medical data collected by trauma experts at the University of Michigan, elderly and obese dummies are being used to help car manufacturers create safer vehicles for today's drivers.

3-Jan-2017 6:05 AM EST
Scientists Tissue-Engineer Part of Human Stomach in Laboratory
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Scientists report in Nature using pluripotent stem cells to generate human stomach tissues in a petri dish that produce acid and digestive enzymes. Publishing their findings online Jan. 4, researchers at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center grew tissues from the stomach’s corpus/fundus region. The study comes two years after the same team generated the stomach’s hormone-producing region (the antrum). The discovery means investigators now can grow both parts of the human stomach to study disease.

Released: 12-Dec-2016 8:00 AM EST
What Else Comes with a College Degree? An Extra 10 Pounds, Says New Study
University of Vermont

College students gained an average of 10 pounds over the course of their college years, a study published in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior found, and number of students who were overweight or obese increased 78 percent. The extra weight translates to a variety of increased health risks, the study says.

Released: 6-Dec-2016 11:05 AM EST
How to Turn White Fat Brown
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Researchers found that the browning program in white fat cells is normally suppressed by a protein called FLCN. It performs this function in cooperation with a major cellular signaling hub, a protein complex known as mTOR. Harnessing this knowledge may one day provide the key to better treatments for obesity.


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