Fructose Sugar Makes Maturing Human Fat Cells Fatter, Less Insulin-Sensitive, Study Finds

ScienceDaily (June 21, 2010) — Fructose, a sugar widely used in soft drinks and processed foods, often gets some of the blame for the widespread rise in obesity. Now a laboratory study has found that when fructose is present as children’s fat cells mature, it makes more of these cells mature into fat cells in [...]

July 21, 2010  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Obesity  No Comments

Exercise Associated With Reduced Effects of Obesity Gene in Teens

ScienceDaily (Apr. 8, 2010) — Performance of an hour or more of physical activity per day by adolescents is associated with control of body weight even among those who are genetically predisposed to obesity, according to a report in the April issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

June 8, 2010  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Obesity  No Comments

Cellular Pathway Could Provide Evidence of How Cancer and Obesity Are Linked

ScienceDaily (Apr. 6, 2010) — The link between obesity and disease has been well documented. There’s evidence now that obesity and cancer have a strong link, as they’ve shown in the United States at least 90,000 cancer deaths a year can be attributed to obesity. University of Alberta researcher Richard Lamb is on his way [...]

June 3, 2010  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Obesity  No Comments

Obesity in Infants Can Be Diagnosed at 6 Months, Study Shows

ScienceDaily (Apr. 7, 2010) — Obesity can be detected in infants as young as 6 months, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.

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Get Up, Get out and Go: Research Tackles Childhood Obesity

ScienceDaily (Apr. 4, 2010) — Getting children involved in finding ways to become more physically active can not only make them more aware of local recreational opportunities, but can even help increase their own physical activity.

May 1, 2010  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Obesity  No Comments

Fat Loss: How It Really Works

Fat loss has high focus at the World Health Organization (WHO) because they have already called obesity
 and being overweight an epidemic.
Why Fat Loss Programs Are Needed
If you do not believe it, just look at the following facts. As of now, according to WHO there are already 1.2 billion people in the world that are officially [...]

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