More and more people have become aware of the dangers of excessive fructose in their diet. A new review on fructose in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN) indicates just how dangerous this simple sugar may be.
Richard J. Johnson, MD and Takahiko Nakagawa, MD (Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension, University of Colorado) provide a concise overview of recent clinical (more…)
A new study says that the growing prevalence of obesity in children could mean higher obesity rates as adults and a higher future burden of diabetes and heart disease.
Writing in the journal Childhood Obesity‚ Drs. Megan Moriarty–Kelsey and Stephen Daniels of the University of Colorado School of Medicine report that obese children could already have early signs of hypertension‚ high cholesterol‚ and insulin resistance. The researchers’ (more…)
In a first person paper published in the August 27, 2010 issue of Childhood Obesity , Dr. Melinda Sothern, Director of Health Promotion and Professor of Public Health at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, provides three ways to de-program the 1950s obesity trinity underlying the current obesity epidemic in the United States and protect future generations from its health consequences.
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Physical activity can help reduce the risk of obesity even for those with a genetic predisposition toward being overweight‚ scientists write in PLoS Medicine.
A team of British researchers looked at 20‚430 people to examine the effects of 12 genetic variants associated with a higher risk of obesity. Researchers calculated each subject’s genetic predisposition score‚ which ranged from 0 to 24‚ based on the number of obesity–related (more…)
Immune system cells linked to inflammation in fat tissue seem to explain why type 2 diabetes afflicts overweight people, new reserach shows.
A study by researchers at Australia’s Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research looked at fat tissue from more than 100 lean and obese patients, finding that macrophages, or white blood cells derived from bone marrow, in fat tissue initiate a process leading to diabetes, according to (more…)