Families do not cause anorexia nervosa
... for a number of reasons, are concerned with their weight and diet. Yet less than half of 1 percent of all women develop anorexia nervosa, which indicates to us that societal pressure alone isn't enough to cause someone to develop this disease," said Walter H. Kaye, M.D., professor of psychiatry, University...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- Jan. 17, 2007
...ican Chemical Society Birds use them to reduce the weight of their feathers. Polar bears rely on them to keep warm in the Arctic cold. Now scientists in China report what they believe to be the first easy, straightforward method for making the kind of multi-channel microtubes found in birds, polar bears and...Active ingredient in common Chinese herb shown to reduce hypertension
...sters received 50 g of tanshinone IIA/100g of body weight once a day for two weeks. After the two-week treatment period, mean arterial blood pressure was measured in the right carotid artery. To examine the microvascular actions of tanshinone IIA researchers applied it topically to the hamsters cheek pouch ...Mind over matter: SH2B1 in the brain regulates obesity
...at SH2B1 in the brain is required to regulate body weight and fat content. This study therefore implicates SH2B1 in the brain as a potential target for the treatment of obesity and type II diabetes, two of the most pressing health problems in the developed world today....JCI table of contents: Jan. 18, 2007
...at SH2B1 in the brain is required to regulate body weight and fat content. This study therefore implicates SH2B1 in the brain as a potential target for the treatment of obesity and type II diabetes, two of the most pressing health problems in the developed world today. TITLE: Neuronal SH2B1 is essential fo...Why are lions not as big as elephants?
... carnivores. Smaller species less than 15-20 kg in weight specialize on very small vertebrates and invertebrates, which weigh a small fraction of their own weight, whereas larger species (>15-20 kg) specialize on large vertebrate prey near their own mass. While carnivores around the size of a lynx or la...Highlights from the January 2007 Journal of the American Dietetic Association
...rking with families to prevent and treat childhood weight problems, professionals should attend to children'...ggest subject characteristics (i.e., education and weight status) are related to reporting errors, these factors should be used to control for or taken into a......naged to obtain quantitative information about the weight of this dust. Analyses of dust quantities were performed near the Bodl valley itself, on the shore of the Atlantic and at an additional spot above the ocean. The data revealed that some 56 percent of the dust reaching the Amazon forest originates i...Technique quickly identifies bacteria for food safety, health care and homeland security
...grams (22 pounds), compared to about 30 times that weight for a conventional mass spectrometer....Four Arnoux's Beaked Whales observed from Polarstern expedition
...than 75 thirty-minute trawls. Length measurements, weight and gender determination, stomach content analyses and the removal of tiny ear bones for age structure analyses are done on board. The sum of the scientific data will provide a comprehensive indication of the fish population dynamics since the end of...Giant Sauropod dinosaur found in Spain
...imated to have weighed between 40 and 48 tons (the weight of six or seven adult male elephants) and is comparable to the world's largest known dinosaurs, including Argentinosaurus and Brachiosaurus . At its estimated length, between 30 and 37 meters, the sauropod would be as long as an NBA basketball cou...New ergonomic backpack lightens the load
...ngee cords, reduces the energetic cost of carrying weight such that users can carry 12 more pounds in the su...eagues will be focusing on reducing the backpack's weight and making a smaller daypack version. Lightning Packs has already received funding through small bus...Dinosaurs -- stones did not help with digestion
...t daring. However, within birds the range of body weight and corresponding masses of gastric stones also spans four orders of magnitude, from the 17 gram robin to the ostrich,' says Oliver Wings, who moved from Bonn University to Tbingen only recently. Yet what else were the dinosaurs' gastric stones use...Relative abundance of common microbes living in the gut may contribute to obesity
...lowed 12 obese patients at a Washington University weight loss clinic over a one-year period. Half the patients were on a low-calorie, low-fat diet and half were on a low-calorie, low carbohydrate diet. At the outset of the study, the obese patients had the same type of depletion of Bacteroidetes and rela...Buildup of damaged DNA in cells drives aging
... sun and had other debilitating symptoms including weight loss, muscle wasting, hearing loss, visual impairment, anemia, hypertension and kidney failure. The boys family had immigrated to Germany to seek better medical treatment for his condition. Extreme sensitivity to ultraviolet (UV) radiation from sun...Researchers find two biomarkers with potential to predict breast cancer spread
... peaks at 4,871 Da (which represents the molecular weight of the protein) and under-expression of a protein peak at 8,596 Da were highly predictive of lymph node metastasis. Patients with two or more positive lymph nodes were significantly more likely to show over-production of 4,871 Da, compared to pati...Linchpin discovered in insulin metabolism
...r of signals. 'The fruit fly larvae increase their weight 200-fold in the first three days after hatching,' Michael Hoch explains. 'If their 'Titch gene' has mutated, they grow visibly more slowly.' A series of additional observations support the thesis that 'Titch' is extremely important for the metabolism...Leibniz Prize winners 2007 announced
...e role of the insulin receptor in controlling body weight and in the formation of fat metabolism disorders. He has also been able to clarify why endocrine pancreatic cells in overweight persons produce insufficient amounts of insulin; this research has received international attention. In addition, Brning h...Seeing a neurotoxin's deadly grip
...oses are less than a nanogram per kilogram of body weight compared to milligram-per-kilogram concentrations needed for most pharmaceutical drugs." "With knowledge of the toxin-receptor interaction, you can begin to design toxin-receptor pairs to change the specificity of what cell gets recognized," said Ch...... trees produced smaller fruits with seeds of lower weight and reduced vitality than non-tapped trees." Based on their findings the authors say that, for production to be sustainable, the way that frankincense is tapped needs to be changed. "In order to control the decline in fruit and seed production, les...