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Taste Receptors Discovered In Pancreatic Beta Cells Can Sense Fructose And Stimulate Insulin Secretion
By Diet in health , 11 hours ago
Taste receptors on the tongue help us distinguish between safe food and food that's spoiled or toxic. But taste receptors are now being found in other organs, too... Continue reading »
The Pathway To Losing Fat Is Heavily Influenced By A Hormone Produced In The Heart
By Diet in health , 11 hours ago
It's well known that exercising reduces body weight because it draws on fat stores that muscle can burn as fuel. But a new study at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford-Burnham) suggests that the heart also plays a role in breaking down fat. In their study, published February 6 in the Journal of... Continue reading »
Based On CE Analysis Of Oral Medications, ACP Recommends Metformin To Treat Type 2 Diabetes
By Diet in health , 11 hours ago
The American College of Physicians (ACP) recommends that clinicians add metformin as the initial drug treatment for most patients with type 2 diabetes when lifestyle modifications such as diet, exercise, and weight loss have failed to adequately improve high blood sugar... Continue reading »
Preventing Obesity Through Positive Parenting During Early Childhood
By Diet in health , 11 hours ago
Programs that support parents during their child's early years hold promise for obesity prevention, according to a new study in the online issue of Pediatrics. Today, one out of five American children is obese. Young children who are overweight are five times more likely than their peers of normal weight to be obese... Continue reading »
Finger Foods During Weaning Help Maintain Healthy Body Weight Later On
By Diet in health , 20 hours ago
A study published in BMJ Open reveals that infants tend to eat healthier and be a healthy weight as they get older if they are allowed to feed themselves with finger foods from the start of weaning (baby led weaning), compared to infants who are spoon fed. According to the researchers, findings from the study indicate... Continue reading »
Weight Management Programs For African-American Women Are More Successful If Held In A Church
By Diet in health , 1 day ago
As a brand new year gets underway, people all over America are resolving to better manage their weight and have a more healthy 2012. According to a new study, those starting new weight loss programs may be surprised to find out that both location and level of experience may influence their success... Continue reading »
Gene Related To Fat Preferences In Humans Found
By Diet in health , 1 day ago
A preference for fatty foods has a genetic basis, according to researchers, who discovered that people with certain forms of the CD36 gene may like high-fat foods more than those who have other forms of this gene. The results help explain why some people struggle when placed on a low-fat diet and may one day assist... Continue reading »
Exercise In Low Oxygen Environment May Result In Improved Insulin Sensitivity
By Diet in health , 2 days ago
Intermittent exercise with and without low oxygen concentrations (or hypoxia) can improve insulin sensitivity in type 2 diabetics, however exercise while under hypoxic conditions provides greater improvements in glycemic control than intermittent exercise alone, according to a recent study accepted for publication in... Continue reading »
Metabolic Side Effects Such As Obesity And Diabetes Caused By Antipsychotic Medications
By Diet in health , 4 days ago
In 2008, roughly 14.3 million Americans were taking antipsychotics - typically prescribed for bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, or a number of other behavioral disorders - making them among the most prescribed drugs in the U.S... Continue reading »
Key Factors In Student Weight - Impoverished Schools, Parent Education
By Diet in health , 4 days ago
Attending a financially poor school may have more of an effect on unhealthy adolescent weight than family poverty, according to Penn State sociologists. Poor schools even influence how parental education protects kids from becoming overweight... Continue reading »
Assessing The Value Of BMI Screening And Surveillance In Schools
By Diet in health , 4 days ago
The value of routine body mass index (BMI) screening in schools has been a topic of ongoing controversy. An expert Roundtable Discussion in the current issue of Childhood Obesity, a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc... Continue reading »
People-Pleasers Feel Pressure To Eat When They Believe It Will Help Another Person Feel More Comfortable
By Diet in health , 4 days ago
If you are a people-pleaser who strives to keep your social relationships smooth and comfortable, you might find yourself overeating in certain social situations like Super Bowl watch parties. A new study from Case Western Reserve University found that, hungry or not, some people eat in an attempt to keep others... Continue reading »
Potatoes Lower Blood Pressure In Those With Obesity And Hypertension Without Increasing Weight
By Diet in health , 4 days ago
The first study to check the effects of eating potatoes on blood pressure in humans has concluded that two small helpings of purple potatoes (Purple Majesty) a day decreases blood pressure by about 4 percent without causing weight gain... Continue reading »
Public Health Burden Could Be Eased By Societal Control Of Sugar
By Diet in health , 5 days ago
Sugar should be controlled like alcohol and tobacco to protect public health, according to a team of UCSF researchers, who maintain in a new report that sugar is fueling a global obesity pandemic, contributing to 35 million deaths annually worldwide from non-communicable diseases like diabetes, heart disease and... Continue reading »
Our Dining Partners Influence Our Eating Behavior
By Diet in health , 5 days ago
Share a meal with someone and you are both likely to mimic each other's behavior and take bites at the same time rather than eating at your own pace, says a study published in the Feb. 2 issue of the online journal PLoS ONE. This behavior was found to be more prominent at the beginning of an interaction than at the... Continue reading »
Obesity-Related Diseases In Adolescents Improves With Bariatric Surgery Within First Two Years
By Diet in health , 5 days ago
Today, about one in five children in the United States are obese. That means that in just one generation alone the number of obese kids in this country has quadrupled... Continue reading »
Potential Link Between Daily Consumption Of Diet Soft Drinks And Risk Of Vascular Events
By Diet in health , 5 days ago
Individuals who drink diet soft drinks on a daily basis may be at increased risk of suffering vascular events such as stroke, heart attack, and vascular death. This is according to a new study by Hannah Gardener and her colleagues from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and at Columbia University... Continue reading »
Shedding Light On Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: Gene Mutation Linked To Accumulation Of Fat, Other Lipids In Liver
By Diet in health , 5 days ago
A team of scientists from the University of Utah and the University of California at San Francisco has discovered that the mutation of a gene encoding a ketone body transporter triggers accumulation of fat and other lipids in the livers of zebrafish. This discovery, published in the Feb... Continue reading »
Sugar - Attacking Health Globally
By Diet in health , 5 days ago
A recent study published in Nature by Robert Lustig, MD, Laura Schmidt, PhD, MSW, MPH, and Claire Brindis, DPH, and colleges at the University of California, San Francisco, reveals that sugar is as dangerous when over-consumed as tobacco or alcohol, and should be used in moderation... Continue reading »
Lumbar Disc Degeneration More Likely In Overweight And Obese Adults
By Diet in health , on 1 February 2012, 04:00
One of the largest studies to investigate lumbar spine disc degeneration found that adults who are overweight or obese were significantly more likely to have disc degeneration than those with a normal body mass index (BMI)... Continue reading »