Recent News & Comments About genetic obesity
Researchers discover two new genetic loci for obesity
Obesity is influenced environmental and genetic factors. The genetic predisposition accounts for more than 50 percent of the variance in body weight. Roughly three dozen genes are known to have an influence on body weight regulation. Together with international colleagues, a group of scientists of the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) has identified two new genetic loci for obesity. The results ...
Weighty Genes: UDE-scientists find new genetic variants for obesity
Obesity is influenced environmental and genetic factors. The genetic predisposition accounts for more than 50 percent of the variance in body weight. Roughly three dozen genes are known to have an influence on body weight regulation.
Controlling Obesity Will Save Over Half A Trillion Dollars
With the tobacco problem on the back burner, diet and obesity are coming into the cross hairs as a focus for public health. Controlling the rise in obesity, promoting quality of life, whilst saving on public healthcare costs is clearly an admirable goal. It is unfortunate that the body's genetic makeup from our prehistoric existence urges it to store large amounts of fat, but the ramifications ...
A Mathematical Challenge to Obesity
Carson Chow has used mathematical models to determine the causes of obesity, and ways to stem the epidemic.
Obesity, sedate lifestyles drive diabetes crisis
While cancer gets most of the headlines, another equally vexing disease is increasing fast. Your chances of suffering diabetes has risen to one in three.
RNA breakthrough transforms idea of gene control
Never-before-seen changes to the genetic code give new insight into how the environment can affect our genes
Battle of the bulge: Does treating obesity as a disease help?
Harping on people ad nauseam to lose weight is rather "sadistic", there's little evidence the treatment of obesity works and even the benefits of weight loss are debatable.
The Obesity Epidemic - Two Policy Experts Speak Out
As part of our look into the obesity epidemic, we decided to ask two leading healthcare policy experts questions about the likelihood and potential impact of??a tax on the obese and a tax on high-fat and high-sugar foods. This is the third article in a series I have written on obesity, with the previous two ...
Nighttime fasting may foster weight loss
A study involving mice suggests that someone on a high-fat, high-calorie diet can stay lean with sufficient fasting between day's end and breakfast the next morning. In an age of long commutes, late sports practices, endless workdays and 24/7 television programming, the image of Mom hanging up her dish towel at 7 p.m. and declaring "the kitchen is closed" seems a quaint relic of an earlier era.
Wicomico County Fighting Obesity With Walk At Lunch
SALISBURY, Md. -- It's a step in the fight against obesity in Wicomico County.
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