PSU.edu - Obesity gradually numbs the taste sensation of rats to sweet foods and drives them to consume larger and ever-sweeter meals, according to neuroscientists. Findings from the Penn State study could uncover a critical link between taste and body weight, and reveal how flab hooks the brain on sugary food.
“When you have a reduced [...]

JAMA / Archives - Face-to-face and telephone follow-up sessions appear to be more effective in the maintenance of weight loss for women from rural communities compared with weight loss education alone, according to a report in the November 24, 2008 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. In addition, telephone counseling appears to be just as [...]

JAMA - The increased risk of cardiovascular events for patients with coronary heart disease and symptoms of depression appears to be largely explained by a change in health behaviors, especially a lack of physical activity or exercise, according to a study in the November 26, 2008 issue of JAMA.
Depression has long been recognized as a [...]

It’s the holiday season! We get a break from work, and get to visit family and eat great food.
And the other seasonal “tradition”: we manage to get stressed out. And with economic downturns and unemployment across the country, many people might be even more stressed.
“When someone becomes stressed they’re experiencing an age-old, very normal reaction [...]

MCG.edu - Regular exercise seems to reduce anger expression in overweight but otherwise healthy children, researchers said.
The first published study on the topic looked at 208 typically sedentary 7- to 11-year-olds who participated in a 10 to 15 week afterschool aerobic exercise program or maintained their usual inactive routine. The Pediatric Anger Expression Scale, used [...]

Ajp.amjpathol.org - Current research suggests that melatonin therapy may help treat uveitis, a common inflammatory eye disease. The related report by Sande et al., “Therapeutic Effect of Melatonin in Experimental Uveitis,” appears in the December 2008 issue of The American Journal of Pathology.
People with uveitis develop sudden redness and pain in their eyes, and their [...]