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June 26, 2025

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This "Healthy" Fat May Secretly Be Fueling Obesity

June 11, 2025 — A popular fat found in olive oil may not be as innocent as it seems. Scientists discovered that oleic acid, a major component of many high-fat foods, uniquely spurs the growth of new fat cells by manipulating specific proteins in the body. Unlike ...

A High-Fat Diet Sets Off Metabolic Dysfunction in Cells, Leading to Weight Gain

May 29, 2025 — Researchers find high-fat diets set off metabolic dysfunction in cells, leading to weight gain, but these effects can be reversed by treatment with an ...

Location Matters: Belly Fat Compared to Overall Body Fat More Strongly Linked to Psoriasis Risk

May 27, 2025 — Researchers have found that central body fat, especially around the abdomen, is more strongly linked to psoriasis risk than total body fat, particularly in women. This link between central fat and ...

Exercise the Key to Maintaining Vitamin D Levels in Winter

May 15, 2025 — New research shows that regular exercise can help maintain Vitamin D levels during the darker ...

Why Our Waistlines Expand in Middle Age: Stem Cells

Apr. 25, 2025 — It's no secret that our waistlines often expand in middle-age, but the problem isn't strictly cosmetic. Belly fat accelerates aging and slows down metabolism, increasing our risk for developing diabetes, heart problems and other chronic diseases. ...

Scientists Discover Why Obesity Takes Away the Pleasure of Eating

Mar. 26, 2025 — Many obese people report losing pleasure in eating rich foods -- something also seen in obese mice. Scientists have now discovered the reason. Long-term high-fat diets lower levels of neurotensin in the brain, disrupting the dopamine pleasure ...

Scientists Call for Targeted Fiber Diets to Boost Health

Mar. 19, 2025 — Food scientists have reclassified dietary fibers -- beyond just soluble and insoluble -- to better guide nutritional decisions and drive targeted health food ...

Two-Thirds of Children Classified BMI-Overweight Had Normal Fat Estimated With Waist-to-Height Ratio

Mar. 13, 2025 — Body mass index (BMI) was almost three times more likely to classify children as overweight than waist circumference-to-height ratio, according to a new ...

Memory Is Impaired in Aged Rats After 3 Days of High-Fat Eating

Mar. 6, 2025 — Just a few days of eating a diet high in saturated fat could be enough to cause memory problems and related brain inflammation in older adults, a new study in rats ...

Special Type of Fat Tissue Could Promote Healthful Longevity and Help Maintain Exercise Capacity in Aging

Mar. 4, 2025 — A new discovery suggests a potential new approach to improving fitness in older ...

Obesity: Researchers Discover a Cause of Leptin Resistance -- And How to Reverse It

Mar. 4, 2025 — Most obese patients grow resistant to satiety signals from the hormone leptin. A new study shows that leptin sensitivity can be restored in mice, leading to weight ...

Genetic Evidence That Diabetes Drug GLP-1 Receptor Agonists Achieve Weight Loss Primarily by Reducing Fat Mass More Than Muscle

Feb. 24, 2025 — Diabetes and obesity have become pressing health issues worldwide. Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists, a class of medications widely used in the treatment of type 2 diabetes (T2D), ...

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Selenoproteins: The Fountain of Youth?

Feb. 4, 2025 — Researchers find that certain antioxidant enzymes, called selenoproteins, significantly contribute to fighting cell aging. The team used a gene knockout mouse model to help them study the effects of ...

How Hungry Fat Cells Could Someday Starve Cancer to Death

Feb. 4, 2025 — Liposuction and plastic surgery aren't often mentioned in the same breath as cancer. But they are the inspiration for a new approach to treating cancer that uses engineered fat cells to deprive ...

Vitamin D Matters During First Trimester

Feb. 3, 2025 — Maternal vitamin D levels in the first trimester were related to both prenatal growth and pregnancy outcomes, according to a new study. Low vitamin D levels during the first trimester of pregnancy ...

Fatty Muscles Raise the Risk of Serious Heart Disease Regardless of Overall Body Weight

Jan. 20, 2025 — People with pockets of fat hidden inside their muscles are at a higher risk of dying or being hospitalized from a heart attack or heart failure, ...

New, Simple, and Natural Method for Producing Vitamin B2

Dec. 13, 2024 — Many vitamins are produced in chemical factories, often synthetically, but researchers have succeeded in developing a natural and simple method for producing vitamin B2: by gently heating lactic acid ...

Taking High-Dose Vitamin D Supplements for Five Years Did Not Affect the Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes

Dec. 3, 2024 — Using significantly higher doses of vitamin D than recommended for five years did not affect the incidence of type 2 diabetes in elderly men and ...

Hidden Fat Predicts Alzheimer's 20 Years Ahead of Symptoms

Dec. 3, 2024 — Researchers have linked a specific type of body fat to the abnormal proteins in the brain that are hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease up to 20 years before the earliest symptoms of dementia appear, ...

Revisiting Vitamin D Guidelines

Dec. 2, 2024 — In June of 2024, the Endocrine Society, influenced by a substantial body of research conducted in recent years, published new clinical practice guidelines for the testing and supplementation of ...

Vitamin D Supplements May Lower Blood Pressure in Older People With Obesity

Nov. 20, 2024 — Vitamin D supplements may lower blood pressure in older people with obesity, and taking more than the Institutes of Medicine's recommended daily dose does not provide additional health benefits, ...

High-Dose IV Vitamin C Plus Chemotherapy Doubles Survival in Advanced Pancreatic Cancer

Nov. 18, 2024 — A randomized, phase 2 clinical trial shows that adding high-dose, intravenous (IV) vitamin C to chemotherapy doubles the overall survival of patients ...

Zinc Deficiency Promotes Acinetobacter Lung Infection, Study Finds

Nov. 15, 2024 — Researchers discovered an unexpected link between zinc deficiency, the pro-inflammatory cytokine interleukin-13 (IL-13), and Acinetobacter baumannii lung infection and demonstrated that blocking ...

When Sun Protection Begets Malnutrition: Vitamin D Deficiency in Japanese Women

Nov. 14, 2024 — Researchers have developed a non-invasive, low-cost tool for assessing the risk of vitamin D deficiency in young women called ViDDPreS (Vitamin D Deficiency Predicting ...

Vitamin D During Pregnancy Boosts Children's Bone Health Even at Age Seven

Nov. 6, 2024 — Children whose mothers took extra vitamin D during pregnancy continue to have stronger bones at age seven, according to ...

Gut Hormones Could Hold the Key to Fighting Fatty Liver Disease

Oct. 7, 2024 — Fatty liver disease is a growing global health concern. Proglucagon-derived peptides (PGDPs), including glucagon, GLP-1, and GLP-2, are known to regulate lipid metabolism in the liver. However, the ...

Four in Five Pregnant Women in Ireland Are Iron Deficient by Third Trimester, Study Finds

Sep. 26, 2024 — Researchers have shown that over 80 percent of women are iron deficient by their third trimester. The findings raise concerns as the participants in the study were a low-risk and generally healthy ...

Increased Antioxidants and Phenolic Compounds Produced in Salted Red Perilla Leaves During Japanese Apricot Pickling

Sep. 26, 2024 — Antioxidant content and activity are increased during the processing and digestion of Japanese apricots pickled with salted red perilla leaves, new research ...

Brown Fat: How Cells Generate Heat by Burning Calories

Sep. 16, 2024 — Special fat cells known as brown adipocytes help maintaining body temperature by converting calory-rich nutrients into heat. This protects from gaining excess weight and metabolic disorders. An ...

Long-Term Exercisers Have 'Healthier' Belly Fat

Sep. 10, 2024 — People with obesity who are long-time exercisers have healthier belly fat tissue and can store fat there more effectively than nonexercisers with obesity, according to a new ...

Identifying 'Stealth' Sources of Saturated Fat, Added Sugar in the Diet

Aug. 15, 2024 — A newly compiled list of foods and drinks commonly consumed in the United States hints at why many adults unknowingly overdo it on saturated fat and added sugar in their daily diet, a new study ...

Over Half of Iron Deficiency Cases in Large Health System Still Unresolved at Three Years

Aug. 15, 2024 — Over half of people with iron deficiency were found to still have low iron levels three years after diagnosis, and among patients whose condition was effectively treated within that timeframe, they ...

Beige Fat Cells With a 'Sisyphus Mechanism'

Aug. 14, 2024 — A new class of fat cells makes people healthier. The cells consume energy and produce heat through seemingly pointless biochemical ...

A Ketogenic Diet Could Improve the Response to Pancreatic Cancer Therapy

Aug. 14, 2024 — Scientists have discovered a way to get rid of pancreatic cancer in mice by putting them on a high fat, or ketogenic, diet and giving them cancer ...

Scientists Turn White Fat Cells Into Calorie-Burning Beige Fat

July 1, 2024 — Researchers have figured out how to turn ordinary white fat cells, which store calories, into beige fat cells that burn calories to maintain body ...

Membrane Protein Analogues Could Accelerate Drug Discovery

June 21, 2024 — Researchers have created a deep learning pipeline for designing soluble analogues of key protein structures used in pharmaceutical development, sidestepping the prohibitive cost of extracting these ...

A High-Fat Diet May Fuel Anxiety

June 17, 2024 — New research shows when animals are fed a diet high in saturated fat for nine weeks, their gut bacteria change in ways that influence brain chemicals and fuel ...

Protein Study Could Help Researchers Develop New Antibiotics

June 10, 2024 — A team has found a way to make the bacterial enzyme histidine kinase water-soluble, which could make it possible to rapidly screen potential antibiotics that might interfere with its ...

Antioxidant Gel Preserves Islet Function After Pancreas Removal

June 7, 2024 — Severe chronic pancreatitis is treated by removing the pancreas. Without a pancreas, patients also lose insulin-producing cells called islets. To preserve insulin responses, surgeons transplant ...

Healthy Adults Under Age of 75 Urged to Take Recommended Daily Allowance of Vitamin D

June 3, 2024 — Healthy adults under the age of 75 are unlikely to benefit from taking more than the daily intake of vitamin D recommended by the Institutes of Medicine (IOM) and do not require testing for vitamin D ...

New Cells Could Be Key to Treating Obesity

May 9, 2024 — New cells discovered in human omental adipose tissue inhibit fat cell formation, revealing why 'apple' body shapes may pose higher metabolic health ...

New Study Challenges One-Size-Fits-All Approach to Vitamin D Supplementation Guidelines

May 2, 2024 — A new study sheds light on the complexities of achieving optimal vitamin D status across diverse populations. Despite substantial research on the determinants of vitamin D, levels of vitamin D ...