Missouri.edu - With the obesity rate rising for American adults and children, health concerns such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease are a frequent reality. Although obesity itself is a major risk factor for disease, most of the threat may be associated with a cluster of risk factors called the metabolic syndrome (MetS). Losing weight can [...]

AHA - Three different weight-loss diets - a low-carbohydrate diet, a low-fat diet and the Mediterranean diet - were equally effective in helping overweight people to reverse atherosclerosis in the carotid arteries after losing moderate amounts of weight and improving their blood pressure, in a study reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
Researchers [...]

Geisinger.org - Obesity is a condition that often follows family lines, but bariatric surgery offers hope for breaking this generational pattern of obesity.
“Bariatric surgery is part of a transformational lifestyle change,” said Christopher Still, D.O., director of the Geisinger Center for Nutrition and Weight Management. “Patients who are most successful after bariatric surgery must adapt [...]

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 the [...]

Uni-Bonn.de - Brown fat, or brown adipose tissue, is different from white fat pads. It contains loads of mitochondria, miniature power stations which among other things can ‘burn’ fat. In doing this, they normally generate a voltage similar to that of a battery, which then provides energy for cellular processes. However, the mitochondria of brown [...]

UIC.edu - Restricting daily calorie intake is a common plan to help obese and overweight people slim down to healthier weights. But that weight loss plan requires a daily 15 to 40 percent calorie reduction, which makes sticking to the diet hard for many.
University of Illinois at Chicago researchers have found that a modified version [...]