Obesity treatment

Reading Can Help Obese Kids Lose Weight

admin_huliq — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 12:39:18 -0500

It's no secret that reading is beneficial. But can it help kids lose weight? In the first study to look at the impact of literature on obese adolescents, researchers at Duke Children's Hospital discovered that reading the right type of novel may make a difference.

New Book Details Obesity Treatment Strategies

admin_huliq — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:56:41 -0500

Informa Healthcare, one of the world’s premier medical scientific publishers, is introducingHandbook of Obesity: Clinical Applications, Third Edition,an in-depth examination of all the clinical aspects relating to obesity and its treatment.

Europe-wide investment in lipid research will help tackle diseas

harminka — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:20:02 -0500

Leading scientists today called for Europe to invest more funds into the study of lipids – the 'fatty' molecules that play a crucial role in the function of human cells and which are implicated in a range of diseases from obesity and diabetes to Alzheimer's.

Europe-wide investment in lipid research will help tackle diseas

harminka — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:19:58 -0500

Combining exercise with hormone could prevent weight gain

harminka — Wed, 28 May 2008 02:20:17 -0500

Once heralded as a promising obesity treatment, the hormone leptin lost its fat-fighting luster when scientists discovered overweight patients were resistant to its effects. But pairing leptin with just a minor amount of exercise seems to revive the hormone’s ability to fight fat again, University of Florida researchers recently discovered.

Gladstone scientists reveal genetics of fat storage in cells

harminka — Thu, 22 May 2008 00:47:42 -0500

New research by the Gladstone Institutes of Cardiovascular Disease (GICD) and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), has revealed the genetic determinants of fat storage in cells, which may lead to a new understanding of and potential treatments for obesity, diabetes, and heart disease.

Surgery and drugs not enough to combat obesity

seher — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:47:01 -0500

A review of research examining the effectiveness of different obesity treatments has concluded that no matter what other forms of therapy are offered, changes in lifestyle are imperative if patients want to maximise and maintain their weight loss.

Protein deficiency leads to faster fat burning in mice

harminka — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 06:47:33 -0500

Researchers have developed a new, lean mouse with characteristics suggesting that someday, using medication to manipulate a specific protein in humans could emerge as a strategy to treat obesity and disorders associated with excess weight, such as diabetes and metabolic syndrome.

Obesity chokes up the cellular power plant

harminka — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:47:33 -0500

The machinery responsible for energy production in fat cells is working poorly as a result of obesity. Finnish research done at the University of Helsinki and the National Public Health Institute shows that this may aggravate and work to maintain the obese state in humans.

Preschoolers benefit from daycare program to prevent obesity

harminka — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:30:18 -0500

A preschool-based intervention program helped prevent early trends toward obesity and instilled healthy eating habits in multi-ethnic 2- to 5-year-olds, according to a report presented at the American Heart Association’s Conference on Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism.

Gene hunters fine-tune marker for common obesity gene

harminka — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:20:37 -0500

Genomics researchers, seeking to replicate another group’s discovery of an important gene associated with obesity, have further refined the signal to a particular variant in DNA that may be more helpful in identifying this gene’s role in obesity in various human populations worldwide.

Mitochondrial uncoupling demonstrated in human skeletal muscle

harminka — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:11:27 -0500

With obesity still on the increase, it appears that the main weapon in the fight against it - reducing energy consumption by eating less - is ineffective. There is evident need to search for new treatment strategies dealing with the opposite aspect of the energy balance: increasing energy consumption.