University of Adelaide - An Australian researcher has discovered scientific evidence that obesity associated with a high-fat diet is a key factor in infertility – because of how it affects the receptor PPARγ in women’s eggs. PPAR-gamma has an insulin-sensitizing effect in the body; it is one of the PPAR set of receptors associated with [...]

Newswise — Losing weight is difficult. For most overweight people, the thought of losing that extra 20 or 30 pounds of weight seems like an insurmountable goal. Imagine the need to burn enough fat to lose 100 pounds or more, and what kind of diet and exercise program you would have to follow.
That’s just what [...]

UT Southwestern Medical Center - Researchers have discovered how increasing the amount of a fat control hormone - adiponectin - can “uncouple” weight gain from the health-devastating problem of insulin resistance. Even in the context of fat gain from overeating, adiponectin preserves insulin sensitivity and prevented inflammation.
In their NIH-funded study, the “world’s fattest mice” can [...]

But EGCG from green tea helps reduce levels of reactive carbonyls from HFCS in soft drinks.
ACS — Researchers have found new evidence that soft drinks sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) may contribute to the development of diabetes, particularly in children, because of high levels of reactive carbonyls. In a laboratory study of commonly consumed [...]

The reported failure of vitamin E to prevent heart attacks or atherosclerosis may be due to underdosing, according to a new study by investigators at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
The findings, published early online in Free Radical Biology and Medicine, suggest that these earlier studies all had a fundamental flaw – the doses used weren’t high [...]

Institute of Physics - Until recently physicians have had to rely on time-consuming and uncertain behavioral examinations to diagnose the onset of brain diseases such as multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s and schizophrenia. Now the new, non-invasive brain scan MEG may change all that.
Research published next week in the Institute of Physics’ Journal of Neural Engineering suggests [...]