A new study by researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center has determined that a single gene mutation is responsible for a type of uncontrolled obesity. The study which is published on the website of Nature Medicine identifies how the single gene mutation involved, fails to pass along appetite suppressing signals from the body to the …
Sleep habits have been associated with obesity in previous studies and animal models but a new study published in the “Journal of Obesity,” suggests that sleep timing and duration both play an important role in the risk of obesity. The study evaluated the sleep habits of 52 individuals, 25 of whom were female. The participants …
A social media campaign expressing outrage at the use of a ground beef filler product termed “pink slime” by its detractors has resulted in changes to the content of some lunches involved in the national school lunch program. The ammonia-treated product which is used in order to stretch the quantity of lean ground beef in …
In a recent animal study published in the September issue of Cell Metabolism studied the metabolic impact of socialization. Researchers found that “after four weeks in (a socially) enriched environment, the animals’ abdominal fat decreased by fifty percent,” according to Lei Cao, of Ohio State University. “I’m still amazed at the degree of fat loss …
A new study from the Environmental Working Group (EWG) has determined that many brands of breakfast cereal specifically marketed for children contain so much sugar that they should be classified as desserts. The EWG checked the nutritional contents of 84 popular children’s breakfast cereals. They identified the 10 “worst” cereals based on the amount of …
Some women base their body image on what other peoples opinions are not on their actual body. A woman can have a nicely shaped body well with in her body mass index and still have body image issue because another person spouse, sibling, co-worker, friend or stranger may say, “Your hips look a little wide.” …
A new study by University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) researchers has determined that weight gain may be prevented without dieting through the use of simple mindful eating and stress reduction techniques. The study which is published online in the Journal of Obesity provides more clues into the link between stress and the stress hormone …
Some new research studies are examining the possibility that brown fat may be used to help people lose or control their weight. Brown fat is said to burn fat “like a furnace”. Up until about 3 years ago, scientists believed that only babies had brown fat. Babies use this brown fat in order to keep …
A new study published in the Journal of Early childhood Research has found evidence that children as young as 2 ½ years of age may be prone to discriminate against overweight people. The study formed part of a Master’s Degree thesis by graduate student Wei Sui at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. 41 children were …
The Profile Does Not Always Match the Patient Most likely, the missed self-harm behavior in adolescents with eating disorders is because they do not fit the criteria of questions and guidelines used by physicians. Those with eating disorders and self-harm behavior are most commonly seen in young adult women. Why Adolescents Participant in Self-Harm Behavior …
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