American Obesity Costs the Nation Billions in Lost Productivity
A new study from Yale University provides state-level estimates of obesity-attributable costs of absenteeism among working adults in the United States, finding that the total…
A new study from Yale University provides state-level estimates of obesity-attributable costs of absenteeism among working adults in the United States, finding that the total…
An international team of researchers has discovered a new signaling molecule capable of activating brown fat cells. The number of overweight persons is greatly increasing…
A newly published study is the first to evaluate the effect of body weight on the biological ages of a variety of human tissues, revealing…
Yale scientists uncover how a molecular process in the brain that is known to control eating transforms white fat into brown fat, impacting how much…
New research from Yale University shows that counties with a higher number of dentists per capita have strikingly lower rates of obesity, finding that counties…
A new 12-week clinical study is the first prospective, randomized clinical trial to directly compare the effects of water and diet beverages on weight loss…
Researchers discover that mice without the FAT10 gene have an elevated metabolic rate, burn fat as fuel, exhibit reduced glucose and insulin levels, and age…
A new study shows that the IRX3 gene controls body mass and regulates body composition, and appears to be the functional obesity gene. Mutations within…
In two newly published studies, researchers show how mitochondria play a key role in the body’s ability to control weight gain. Becoming obese or remaining…
A UC Berkeley has linked sleep deprivation to junk food cravings, finding that high-level brain regions required for complex judgments and decisions become blunted by…
Researchers have identified a genetic cause of severe obesity, finding that mice with the genetic mutation gained weight even while eating the same amount of…
A newly published pilot study from Case Western Reserve University suggests that obesity can be predicted from infancy, finding that children who were normal weight…
A new study from the University of Colorado Boulder suggests that a lack of sleep leads to eating and weight gain, finding that sleep-restricted people…
While working with mice, Yale researchers used a process known as differentiation to successfully identify cells with certain types of receptors that could eventually morph…
A newly published study from the University of Michigan found that a currently available asthma drug reverses obesity, diabetes and fatty liver in mice. Researchers…
Researchers at UCLA have shown that body-fat responses to high-fat, high-sugar diets have a very strong genetic component and have identified several genetic factors potentially…
By analyzing data on over 43,000 children between the ages 10 and 17, new research from UCLA shows that obese children are at nearly twice…
There are quite a few different weight-loss apps and add-ons available on the market, and many of them are available on smartphones. These tools are…