Turn Fat People Into Mice

Monday, December 31, 2012

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Welcome to the Turn Fat People Into Mice blog. (Note size comparison of fat mouse with a 747) I have started this very important blog and w...

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Sunday, September 30, 2012

Obesity cure claim by Irish and US researchers from Trinity and Harvard

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Irish scientists believe they have reached a pivotal point in their research into the battle against obesity. The research carried out by ...

Sunday, September 23, 2012

Heat-processed food ups obesity, diabetes risk

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Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have identified a common compound in heat-processed food that could play a major role in the d...

Super Muscular Mice Could Help Treat Diabetes, Make You Buff

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Researchers can make Mighty Mice by tinkering with their proteins before they are born, a new study suggests. These super mice have bigger a...

How 'beige' fat makes the pounds melt away

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Researchers from the University of Bonn and the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried have decoded a signal path that could bo...

Antibiotic use in early life linked to obesity

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A new study has confirmed the theory that low doses of antibiotic drugs may alter the composition and function of the bacteria in the gut, c...

Tackling obesity by manipulating gut flora

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Antibiotics could one day be the standard treatment for regulating weight, suggests a new study in Nature Immunology that examines the inter...

Study in mice discovers injection of heat-generating cells reduces belly fat

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The injection of a tiny capsule containing heat-generating cells into the abdomens of mice led those animals to burn abdominal fat and initi...

Weird science: Fat capsule injections could make you thinner

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This just in from Ohio State University: fat plus more fat equals thin. In other words, if you've been trying to lose weight by adding l...

No Fat Mice in This Lab

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Two microRNAs have been identified as potential therapeutic targets for obesity. Researchers at Virginia Tech and the University of Texas So...

Carefully scheduled diets 'combat obesity better than fat reduction'

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New research has shown that scheduling food consumption in a way that improves metabolic efficiency could be the best way of preventing obes...

Scientists develop herb-based anti-obesity medicine

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A group of South Korean scientists has developed a new herb-based medicine that can help prevent and even cure obesity that has also been pr...

Fat fighters found in fat tissue

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Researchers at Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) have found that a type of immune system cell once thought rar...

Study finds that natural killer T-cells in fat tissue guard against obesity

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Invariant natural killer T-cells (iNKT) are a unique subset of immune cells that are known to influence inflammatory responses. Now, a scie...

Study: High-fat diet can prevent obesity in mice

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In completely counter-intuitive research, scientists at the Hebrew University have found that high-fat meals served at the same time and for...

Drinking green tea helps prevent obesity - study confirms

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Drinking green tea helps prevent obesity or weight loss, which is known for some time. A new laboratory study in the Food and Agricultural ...

U of A research could lead to obesity treatment breakthrough

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New University of Alberta research — only yet done on mice — has shown a new gene therapy could one day help obese people lose weight, becom...

Brain neurons and diet influence onset of obesity and diabetes in mice

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A lack of AgRP-neurons, brain cells known to be involved in the control of food intake, leads to obesity if mice are fed a regular carbohydr...

New Target for Obesity-Related Disorders

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Inhibiting a microRNA that is overexpressed in obese mice and human patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and type II diabe...

Sunday, August 19, 2012

Slim down with a shot: Scientists studying obesity vaccine

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Could America's obesity epidemic be solved with a vaccine? A newly released study concluded that it could be possible. The new experim...

Experimental Drug Suppresses Appetite in Mice: Study

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An experimental drug tested in mice might one day help people lose weight and keep it off long-term, according to researchers. The drug, c...

An apple peel a day keeps fat away

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Ursolic acid - a waxy substance found in apple peel - increases muscle and brown fat in mice that are on a high-fat diet. These mice burn...

Root Cause Discovered for Obesity, Atherosclerosis; PhenObestin 37.5 Can Help

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Researchers from the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) and Singapore Bioimaging Consortium (SBIC) proved that the same gene all...

New Target for Treating Diabetes and Obesity

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Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a potential target for treating diabetes and obesity. ...

Neutrophils help kick off insulin resistance in obesity

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Experts have found that neutrophils play an important role in initiating the chronic inflammation that characterizes obesity-induced insulin...

Protein Fights Obesity, Diabetes

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A protein that slows aging in mice and other animals also protects against the ravages of a high-fat diet, including diabetes, according to ...

Hormone Levels Linked To Metabolic Disease

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According to a study published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, researchers have found an association between low le...

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Cutting Up Your Food May Help You Lose Weight

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If you're looking to cut calories, you might start by cutting your food into smaller pieces. So suggests a study reported Tuesday in Zur...

Binge Eating Improves With Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery

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Deep brain stimulation reduces binge eating in mice, suggesting that this surgery, which is approved for treatment of certain neurologic and...

Why Do Fat Cells Get Fat? New Suspect Identified

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As the world fights obesity at the human level, scientists at the University of Michigan and their colleagues have made a surprising finding...

Scientists Identify Target for Obesity and Atherosclerosis

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Scientists claim that an enzyme already implicated in the control of tumorigenesis through p53 activation may also directly act to control o...

Fat Fighting Is Part of the Apple's Peel

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Eating unpeeled apples may keep extra pounds and obesity-related diseases at bay, a study in PLoS ONE suggests. Ursolic acid is a natural ...

Obesity Vaccine Effective In Mice

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New vaccines promote weight loss. A new study, published in BioMed Central's open access journal, Journal of Animal Science and Biotechn...

Sunday, June 24, 2012

Apple Peel Compound Boosts Brown Fat, Reduces Obesity in Mice

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Obesity and its associated problems such as diabetes and fatty liver disease are increasingly common global health concerns. A new study by ...

Take your exercise pill

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Scientists may be able to come up with a pill that makes you want to exercise, thus solving -- sort of -- the nation's obesity epidemic....

Tree oil may combat obesity, diabetes, S&T research suggests

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A future weapon in the battle against obesity and diabetes could come in the form of an oil derived from the seeds of wild almond trees, acc...

Higher dose of milk vitamin fights obesity

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A novel form of vitamin B3 in milk given in a high dose to mice fed a fatty diet seemed to help prevent obesity, U.S. and Swiss researchers ...

Sunday, June 10, 2012