Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness

Immune Cells In Fat Tissue Explain The Obesity/Diabetes Link

Inflammation-causing cells in fat tissue may explain the link between obesity and diabetes, a team of Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researchers in Melbourne, Australia, has...
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Researchers Receive $1 Million NIH Grant To Improve Health In Northern California Native American Communities

UC Davis School of Medicine researchers will train Native American communities in Northern California to develop and implement culturally appropriate interventions to improve their health by decreasing obesity and type-2 diabetes, through a $1 million research grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of...
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The Mystery Of Healthy Fat People

Why some obese people go on to become diabetic while others do not. It is common to find obese people even morbidly obese people who are healthier than their condition would normally...
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Anti-Obesity And Diabetes Drug Avoids Brain Effects That Troubled Predecessors

A second-generation experimental anti-obesity and diabetes drug has shown promise in reducing body weight in rodents just as effectively as the predecessor rimonabant while avoiding the risk of psychiatric side effects that led to the withdrawal of rimonabant from the market and stopped further development of other brain-penetrating drugs of its...
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New Insights Into Body Fat Distribution

New research presented at the UK National Stem Cell Network Annual Science Meeting in Nottingham shows that adding fat to mouse stem cells grown in the lab affects their response to the signals that push them to develop into one or other of the main types of fat storage cells - subcutaneous (under the skin) or visceral (around the...
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News From The Journal Of Clinical Investigation: July 1, 2010

METABOLIC DISEASE: Childhood obesity: possible new insight from mice Given the current 'epidemic' of obesity and its related diseases (including type 2 diabetes and heart disease), understanding how food intake, body composition, and energy expenditure are regulated has become a research priority. One soluble molecule found to regulate all these processes, and more, is...
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Patients Denied Insurance For Bariatric Surgery Developed Hypertension, Type 2 Diabetes, And Sleep Apnea

Patients who were denied bariatric surgery for insurance reasons developed a slew of new obesity-related diseases and conditions within three years of follow-up, according to a new study presented here at the 27th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery...
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No Risk Of Heart Disease, Diabetes In Certain Obese People

Obese people without metabolic risk factors for diabetes and heart disease, such as high blood pressure and cholesterol, do not have the elevated cardiovascular risk typical of obesity, but they represent only a small percentage of the obese population, according to a long-term study. The results were presented at The Endocrine Society's 92nd Annual Meeting in San...
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For Insulin-Resistant Women, Cutting Carbs Is More Effective Than Low-Fat Diet

Obese women with insulin resistance lose more weight after three months on a lower-carbohydrate diet than on a traditional low-fat diet with the same number of calories, according to a new study. The results were presented at The Endocrine Society's 92nd Annual Meeting in San...
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Identification Of Protein That Modulates Metabolic Dysfunction In Obesity

Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have discovered that Sfrp5, which refers to secreted frizzled-related protein 5, is an anti-inflammatory adipokine whose expression is disrupted in animal models of obesity and type 2 diabetes. The findings, which currently appear on-line in Science, may provide a new way of targeting metabolic disease, specifically...
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