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Fast Food Restaurants Dish Up Unhealthy Marketing to Youth; Researchers Release Unprecedented Report on Fast Food Nutrition and Marketing

By Guest PostNovember 8, 2010Culture, HealthAds, african american children, calories, children, denver, drinks, fast food, hispanic, internet, jennifer l harris, kelly brownell, mcdonalds, mobile applications, nutrition criteria, obesity, social media sites, sugar, yale rudd center

Children as young as age 2 are seeing more fast food ads than ever before, and restaurants rarely offer parents the healthy kids’ meal choices, according to a new study from Yale’s Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity. The new evaluation, the most comprehensive study of fast food nutrition and marketing ever conducted, shows that fast food marketers target children across a variety of media and in restaurants. In addition, the study finds that restaurants provide largely unhealthy defaults for the side dishes and drinks that come with kids’ meals. The detailed findings of this study will be presented in Denver today during the American Public Health Association’s annual meeting. (more…)

Obesity: Yale Researcher Explains Why It’s All in Our Heads

By Guest PostOctober 28, 20101 commentHealth, Sciencealzheimer, appetite, diabetes, environmental factors, estrogen, genetic, higher brain functions, human brain imaging, hungary, hypothalamus, metabolic disorders, metabolism, neurodegenerative diseases, obesity, parkinson, pioneer award, tamas horvath, type 2 diabetes, veterinary medicine, yale daily bulletin

Tamas Horvath. Image credit: Yale University

Tamas Horvath is the first to tell you that he doesn’t study obesity. But his research on the effects of metabolism on higher brain functions could provide deeper understanding of the brain’s link to appetite, weight and to metabolic disorders such as diabetes and obesity.

His lab was the first to provide evidence that the brain uses fat as fuel. Horvath has also studied how endocrine signals in the brain regulate neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s.

Horvath followed his father and grandfather into veterinary medicine in his native Hungary, but his training sparked a passion for basic research. His achievements have earned him a long title that speaks to his varied research interests. He became chair of the Department of Comparative Medicine at Yale School of Medicine in 2005, and he is also a professor in the Departments of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences and Neurobiology. Horvath also heads the Program on Integrative Cell Signaling and the Neurobiology of Metabolism. (more…)

Putting on the Pounds after Weight Loss? Hit the Gym to Maintain Health Gains

By Guest PostSeptember 25, 20101 commentHealthcardiometabolic, disease, metabolic, obesity, risk factor, shana warner, syndrome, university of missouri, weight, weight loss

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Although obesity is a major risk factor for disease, much of the threat may be associated with the metabolic (or cardiometabolic) syndrome, a cluster of risk factors related to diabetes and heart disease. Losing weight can improve health and reduce many of these risk factors. However, many people struggle to keep the weight off long-term. Now, researchers at the University of Missouri have found that people who perform resistance training while regaining weight can help maintain strides in reducing their risks for chronic disease.

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A Cellular Housekeeper, and Potential Target of Obesity Drugs, Caught in Action

By Guest PostAugust 2, 2010Scienceberkeley lab, bing jap, cancer, crystal chuang, enzyme, eukaryotic cells, lawrence berkeley national laboratory, molecular breaks down, obesity, peter walian, proteins, roy kaltschmidt, tripeptidyl peptidase II

Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have obtained the closest look yet of how a gargantuan molecular machine breaks down unwanted proteins in cells, a critical housekeeping chore that helps prevent diseases such as cancer.

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New Evidence that Chili Pepper Ingredient Fights Fat

By Guest PostJune 9, 20102 commentsHealth, Scienceacs, antiobesity, calorie intake, capsaicin, chili, diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, jong won yun, journal of proteome research, molecular insight, obesity, pepper, protein, proteome, weight loss

Scientists are reporting new evidence that capsaicin, the stuff that gives chili peppers their kick, may cause weight loss and fight fat buildup by triggering certain beneficial protein changes in the body.

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Fast Food Restaurants Dish Up Unhealthy Marketing to Youth; Researchers Release Unprecedented Report on Fast Food Nutrition and Marketing

Obesity: Yale Researcher Explains Why It’s All in Our Heads

Putting on the Pounds after Weight Loss? Hit the Gym to Maintain Health Gains

A Cellular Housekeeper, and Potential Target of Obesity Drugs, Caught in Action

New Evidence that Chili Pepper Ingredient Fights Fat