Weight loss found to reduce cellulite in some overweight women
...ts of weight and lowered their percentage of thigh fat experienced the greatest improvement in cellulite. These patients had a significantly higher starting body mass index (BMI) and had more severe cellulite on average. Patients whose cellulite worsened started with a significantly lower BMI, lost sm...Wear and tear of stress: the psychoneurobiology of aging
...ortisol reduces lean mass, bone density and shifts fat distributions that can precede the onset of many age-related diseases like osteoporosis, metabolic syndrome, Alzheimer's disease and major depression. But, she added, certain behavioral factors, like lifestyle and exercise can modify some of these ho...Childhood obesity caused by 'toxic environment' of Western diets, study says
... it blocks the signals that travel from the body's fat stores to the brain by suppressing the effectiveness of the hormone leptin, resulting in increased food intake and decreased activity. Second, insulin promotes the signal that seeks the reward of eating carried by the chemical dopamine, which makes ...JCI table of contents: August 10, 2006
...ed element in insulin signaling that controls both fat and glucose metabolism. They show that FoxO1 can h...role of Foxo1 in promoting insulin sensitivity and fat synthesis in addition to glucose production has the potential to explain the mix of insulin resistan...Waist-hip ratio should replace body mass index as indicator of mortality risk in older people
...asurement of weight does not differentiate between fat and fat-free mass, and fat-free mass (especially muscle) is progressively lost with increasing age Waist circumference (WC) has been proposed as an alternate or additional measure of obesity. The study found no association with waist circumference...College women at risk for eating disorder may benefit from online intervention
...me. BMI is a reliable indicator of a person's body fat by measuring his or her weight and height. The program also appeared to help women in the San Francisco Bay area who had some symptoms of an eating disorder at the start of the program, such as self-induced vomiting; laxative, diet pill or diureti...Exercise important in reducing size of abdominal fat cells
...INSTON-SALEM, N.C. Reducing the size of abdominal fat cells which are a risk factor for diabetes and he...m 45 obese, middle-age women with excess abdominal fat are part of an ongoing study of up to 125 women. The goal is to determine what lifestyle changes ar...Meals high in saturated fat impair 'good' cholesterol's ability to protect against clogged arteries
...esearch shows that just one meal high in saturated fat can affect the body's ability to protect itself ag...to the study, even a single meal high in saturated fat can reduce the ability of the body's "good" cholesterol, or high-density lipoproteins (HDL), to prot...Compound in dairy products targets diabetes
...interacting with the PPARs to regulate glucose and fat metabolism," says Vanden Heuvel. Early human trials indicate that when administered for longer than 8 weeks, CLA improves the body's misregulation of insulin and lowers the level of glucose in the blood in patients with adult onset, or Type-2 diab...UCLA study shows altering fatty acid levels in diet may reduce prostate cancer growth rate
...d one group of mice a diet comprised of 20 percent fat with a healthy one-to-one ratio of omega-6 to omeg... group of mice were fed the same diet but with the fat derived from mostly omega-6 fatty acids. The study showed that tumor cell growth rates decreased ...Scripps research scientists test anti-obesity vaccine
...our vaccine slows weight gain and decreases stored fat in rats," said a senior author of the paper Kim Ja... is known is that ghrelin promotes weight gain and fat storage through its metabolic actions, decreasing the breakdown of stored fat for energy as well as ...Food labels should list all fats to help cut heart disease, say experts
...st trans fats as well as cholesterol and saturated fat to help reduce coronary heart disease, say researc...tty acids and cholesterol in addition to saturated fat on nutrition labels for all manufactured foods, write the authors. The UK Food Standards Agency is...Message to older adults: embrace, don't fear the effects of sensible exercise
... In addition, every 10-point decrease in abdominal fat (of 1 square centimeter) translated to a 1.2 perce...en, measuring heart function, and body fitness and fat levels at the start and end of the study. All of the participants were in general good health excep...New MRI technique quickly builds 3-D images of knees
...for developing the new technique - suppressing the fat signal in bone provides image contrast between bon...its the difference in resonant frequencies between fat and water. During the scan time, then, the technique maximizes each component of the image, so that ...Low-glycemic index diet promotes weight loss, cardiovascular risk reduction
...evels, may help promote weight loss, decrease body fat and reduce cardiovascular disease risk, according ... diets, lowering the glycemic index nearly doubled fat loss; this effect was stronger in women and did not occur among those on high-protein diets. Partic...Protein potentially links diet, obesity and asthma
...ng protein aP2 is known to regulate the uptake by fat cells of fatty acids and has been previously linke...iously been considered to be a specific marker for fat cells. The group went on to show that mice lacking aP2 have a dramatic reduction in airway inflammat...JCI table of contents: July 3, 2006
...pregulation of the expression of genes involved in fat cell formation and the subsequent accumulation of fat droplets in heart muscle, myocyte apoptosis, and cardiac arrhythmias similar to human ARVC. The stud......er-transplant list simply by changing the type of fat used in the PN solution. The story began in 2001...duct studies in mice. They found evidence that the fat used in standard PN solutions, called Intralipid, was contributing to liver disease by causing fat t...Most effective antipsychotic drug has serious health consequences
...onditions include high blood pressure, excess body fat around the waist, abnormal levels of cholesterol and triglycerides and insulin resistance. Any one of the conditions increases the risk of serious disease. In combination, the risk grows greater. More than half the clozapine patients studied had meta...Providence, RI A recent study suggests that the fat intake of successful weight losers entering the Na...3 - the daily percentage of calories consumed from fat increased from 23.8 percent to 29.4 percent, while calories from carbohydrates decreased from 56 per...