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Obesity Might Be a Result of Your Body’s Chemistry
Scientists at Clemson University are making progress in understanding the link between specific enzymes that are naturally generated in the body and their involvement in…
Fountain of Youth: Cutting Calories and Eating at the Right Time of Day Leads to a Longer Life
Eating only during your most active time of day, while following a reduced-calorie diet, may lead to a substantially longer life, according to new research…
A Calorie-Reduced Diet Can Delay the Development of Diabetes and Boost the Immune System
Gut with Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes bacteria. Credit: © CMFI/Leon Kokkoliadis A Low-Calorie Diet Alters the Gut Microbiome and Delays Immune Aging A calorie-reduced diet cannot…
Yale Scientists Discover Key Regulator of Body Weight
Scientists at Yale University have found that a protein known as augmentor-alpha regulates body weight in mice, a discovery that could lead to new treatments…
Death in Darkness: A New Type of Cell Death Mechanism Discovered in Fly Guts
During erebosis, fluorescent proteins such as GFP and RFP become lost, making cells “black”. In the beginning of erebosis, cells lose cytoplasmic GFP (left bottom…
Higher Blood Fats More Harmful Than Previously Thought – Can Damage Muscle Cells
Increased levels of blood fats in people with type 2 diabetes and obesity are more harmful than previously thought, a new study has found. In…
Obesity: Unhealthy Diet Leads to Fatal Activation of Immune Cells
Obesity: A Dangerous Immune Response An unhealthy diet leads to fatal activation of immune cells. A team of researchers from LMU, in collaboration with the…
Even Moderate Ambient Light During Sleep Is Harmful – Increases Risk for Heart Disease and Diabetes
Close the Blinds During Sleep To Protect Your Health Exposure to artificial light at night during sleep is common Sleeping in a moderately light room…
Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries Around Type-2 Diabetes
For more than 30 years, scientists have been trying to unravel the mystery of how a key biological molecule self assembles into a rogue protein-like…
Men With High Levels of Body Fat Have Lower Bone Density and May Be at Risk for Osteoporosis
Men with high levels of body fat have lower bone density and may be more likely to break a bone than those with normal levels…
Key Protein Identified That Could Be Harnessed to Extend Healthy Lifespan in Humans
Decades of research has shown that limits on calorie intake by flies, worms, and mice can enhance life span in laboratory conditions. But whether such…
Moderate Calorie Restriction Rewires Metabolism, Immunity for Longer Health Span
Calorie restriction improves metabolic and immune responses that help determine both how long a person lives and how many years of good health they enjoy,…
New Research Finds That With Obesity, the Problem Isn’t an Excess of Fat but Its Loss of Function
Obesity is known to cause cardiometabolic diseases like hypertension and diabetes but attributing these diseases to merely an overabundance of fat is a simplification. On…
New Route Discovered for Regulating Blood Sugar Levels – Independent of Insulin
Insulin and FGF1 both regulate blood sugar levels using independent pathways. Credit: Salk Institute New molecular pathway controls blood glucose, circumventing insulin resistance. The discovery…
How Physical Exercise Can Protect Against Fatty Liver Associated Diseases
Exercise not only trains the muscles but can also prevent the development of fatty liver. A new study by the German Center for Diabetes Research…
Research Shows Intermittent Fasting Works for Weight Loss
Intermittent fasting can produce clinically significant weight loss as well as improve metabolic health in individuals with obesity, according to a new study review led…
Unique Benefits for Fat Loss: New Insight on How Resistance Training Burns Fat
Findings from a new University of Kentucky College of Medicine and College of Health Sciences study add to growing evidence that resistance exercise has unique…
Cruel Twist: Exercise Reduces Calories Burned at Rest in People With Obesity
Exercise reduces the number of calories burned at rest in people with obesity, according to a new study by researchers from the Shenzhen Institute of…
Why It Gets Colder As We Age: Immune Cell Betrayal
Human evolution has provided us a level of protection from the existential threat of cold temperature with the capacity to produce heat from fat stored…