Can staying up late make you fat? Researchers found the opposite to be true when they studied sleep in worms: It’s not the sleep loss that leads to obesity, but …read more Source:: Science
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Little-known protein appears to play important role in obesity and metabolic disease
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•With unexpected findings about a protein that’s highly expressed in fat tissue, scientists have opened the door to critical new understandings about obesity and metabolism. The discovery could lead to …read more Source:: Science
Gut-brain connection helps explain how overeating leads to obesity
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•A multi-institutional team reveals a previously unknown gut-brain connection that helps explain how those extra servings lead to weight gain. …read more Source:: Science
Could coffee be the secret to fighting obesity?
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•Scientists have discovered that drinking a cup of coffee can stimulate ‘brown fat’, the body’s own fat-fighting defenses, which could be the key to tackling obesity and diabetes. …read more Source:: Science
Eating in 10-hour window can override disease-causing genetic defects, nurture health
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•Scientists found that mice lacking the biological clocks thought to be necessary for a healthy metabolism could still be protected against obesity and metabolic diseases by having their daily access …read more Source:: Science
Found: A destructive mechanism that blocks the brain from knowing when to stop eating
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•Researchers have uncovered a destructive mechanism at the molecular level that causes a well-known phenomenon associated with obesity: leptin resistance. They found that mice fed a high-fat diet produce an …read more Source:: Science
Obesity alone does not increase risk of death
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•Researchers have found that patients who have metabolic healthy obesity, but no other metabolic risk factors, do not have an increased rate of mortality. The results of this study could …read more Source:: Science
Molecule that gives energy-burning brown fat its identity could lead to drugs for obesity
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•A protein found in brown fat, but not typical white fat, is key to how the energy-burning brown fat cells function. …read more Source:: Science
Severe obesity linked to newly identified gene mutations
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•Researchers have discovered mutations in a gene related to obesity, offering new treatment possibilities in the fight against the global epidemic. …read more Source:: Science
Green tea ingredient may ameliorate memory impairment, brain insulin resistance, and obesity
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•A new study involving mice, suggests that EGCG (epigallocatechin-3-gallate), the most abundant catechin and biologically active component in green tea, could alleviate high-fat and high-fructose (HFFD)-induced insulin resistance and cognitive …read more Source:: Science