Increasing a protein concentrated in brown fat appears to lower blood sugar, promote insulin sensitivity, and protect against fatty liver disease by remodeling white fat to a healthier state, a new study led by UT Southwestern scientists suggests. The finding, published online in Nature Communications, could eventually lead to new…
Metabolic changes in fat tissue in obesity associated with adverse health effects
A twin study recently completed at the University of Helsinki indicates that the machinery responsible for energy handling in fat tissue is working poorly in obesity. In the study, a clear reduction was seen in the activity of mitochondrial genes in obesity in fat tissue, while similar genome-level change in…
Fatty liver disease symptoms: Itchy skin may mean you have the troublesome condition
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Store fat or burn it? Targeting a single protein flips the switch
As obesity becomes a growing issue worldwide—nearly tripling over the last-half century—scientists are trying to gain a better understanding of the condition at the molecular level. Now, new research led by UC San Francisco scientists suggests that a single protein could play an outsize role in weight gain. As reported…
Low-carb, no sugar, no fat: the fad diets popular in the 20th century
Fad diets certainly aren’t a 21st-century obsession. In fact, they were also a popular way for people throughout the 20th century to slim down and improve their health. Though much has changed since then—including what we know about dieting and weight loss—many of the popular fad diets we follow today…
Scientists discover the switch that makes human brown fat burn energy
An international research team have discovered how to activate brown fat in humans, which may lead to new treatments for type 2 diabetes and obesity. The results of the collaboration between the Centre de recherche du Centre hospitalier universitaire de Sherbrooke (CRCHUS) and the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic…
Woman with 'face sinking' condition has stomach fat injected into her cheek
A woman whose face began to dramatically sink on one side is having her cheek rebuilt with fat taken from her stomach. Kayleigh Crowther, first noticed the left-hand side of her face looking more sunken than usual, she thought she must be developing chiselled cheekbones, having recently lost some weight….
What Lifting Weights Does to the Harmful Fat Around Your Heart
As people exercise, start to eat more healthfully, and drop some pounds, they may experience slimming around the waistline, but there’s another kind of fat reduction that’s just as important—whittling down fat surrounding the heart. Now, a new study published in JAMA Cardiology suggests that strength training may be one…
What fat you eat is less important than the food in which it is found
Fat, in its various forms, is at the heart of an international debate over what is and is not healthy eating, but are we slipping in butter and missing the point? The point being that the fat is far less important than the food in which it is found and,…
The Top 4 Ways to Lose Belly Fat for Good
Belly fat is such an important (and dangerous) factor for your overall health that it’s now discussed as an organ. The visceral fat that makes up a spare tire or, worse, a beer belly—and that surrounds your liver, stomach, and intestines—isn’t flabbily inert. It appears to be biologically active, pumping…
Metabolism decoded: lose weight despite fat diet possible
The material cause of Obesity and Diabetes discovered Too much sugar and fat is unhealthy, thick and with a number of diseases is connected, it should actually be aware of. But the question of why this is so, one inevitably comes across the question mark. What are the mechanisms in…