Overweight and obese people have a higher chance of developing diabetes, but the exact mechanism is not well understood. Read on for details:
2023-01-12 16:53:09
Offer a more nuanced understanding of obesity than current definitions and may one day inform more precise ways to diagnose and treat obesity and asso...
2022-12-31 17:40:11
There are two main kinds of fat: visceral fat, internal tissues that surround the stomach, liver, and intestines, and subcutaneous fat, found under th...
2022-12-05 18:12:29
A major challenge in obesity treatment is that fat tissue, which is not continuous in the body but is found piece by piece in "depots," has been diffi...
2022-12-03 17:34:28
Shorter sleepers were also more likely to have a combination of other unhealthy characteristics including excess fat around the middle, elevated blood...
2022-10-27 18:00:59
Obesity afflicts approximately 42 per cent of the U.S. adult population and contributes to the onset of chronic diseases, including diabetes, cancer,...
2022-10-05 12:13:28
A team of doctors from country's premier health research institute All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi has found that anti-diabetic...
2022-09-24 16:23:10
Early in the pandemic research identified diabetes and obesity as risk factors for becoming severely ill with COVID-19. And we know that many people l...
2022-09-18 11:08:41
Teenagers who sleep less than eight hours at night are more likely to be overweight or obese than their peers who get enough sleep, according to a stu...
2022-08-29 11:35:46
According to a new study reproductive hormone levels in obese females may be partially restored by lowering blood glucose levels, leading to improved...
2022-05-27 12:20:37
New research shows that lifelong excess weight almost doubles a woman's risk of developing womb cancer. The findings of the study were published in 'B...
2022-04-20 08:39:56
Our elders unsurprisingly lived up to eighty years and more, even without much medication or hospitalisation, while the youth nowadays grapple with he...
2022-02-10 17:56:24
This obesity model, coupled with automation and supervised machine learning-assisted testing, allowed them to identify 14 genes that cause obesity and...
2021-10-02 12:50:25
According to a recent study, eating fructose appears to alter cells in the digestive tract in a way that enables it to take in more nutrients.
2021-08-28 16:35:06
Parents, take note! Children living in urban areas with high levels of air pollution, noise and traffic may be at higher risk of childhood obesity, ac...
2021-07-15 18:14:53
People with abdominal obesity and excess fat around the body's midsection and organs have an increased risk of heart disease even if their body mass i...
2021-04-23 17:12:55
A new study from the University of Eastern Finland shows that obese women have an increased risk of hip fracture earlier than others, well before the...
2020-12-05 18:31:15
New research shows improving the lifestyle of women with obesity during pregnancy could mean long-term cardiovascular benefits for their children.
2020-09-13 11:48:53
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