Highly palatable, energy-dense foods may activate genes that ultimately make us obese. According to a new research report recently appearing in The FASEB Journal, a diet that is high in fat and in sugar actually switches on genes that ultimately cause our bodies to store too much fat. This means these foods hit you with [...]

Obese patients who achieved moderate weight loss by eating less and exercising more improved their cardiovascular health, and improvements were sustained even if some weight was re-gained later, says a study at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The results of this two-year NIH-funded study, published in the December 15, 2009 issue of [...]

Ithaca.edu – The findings of a Women’s Sports Foundation (WSF) research team led by Ellen Staurowsky are shedding new light on the social and physical benefits that women’s sports programs offer to girls and women. Released December 15, 2009 and entitled “Her Life Depends on It II,” the study is a more comprehensive edition of [...]

AANS.org – The tragic death of actress Natasha Richardson put a spotlight on the potential risks inherent to skiing, as well as the deadly consequences that can result from head trauma. Richardson died two days after suffering an epidural hematoma and slipping into a coma. What at first appeared to be a minor bump on [...]

UAB.edu – Restricting consumption of glucose, the most common dietary sugar, can extend the life span of healthy human-lung cells and speed the death of precancerous human-lung cells, reducing cancer’s spread and growth rate, according to researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). The NIH-funded research has wide-ranging potential in age-related science, including [...]

JAMA / Archives – Increased physical activity appears to be associated with a lower risk of cancer-specific and overall death in men with a history of colorectal cancer that has not spread to other parts of the body, according to a report in the December 14/28, 2009 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. Approximately 150,000 [...]