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News Obesity

• Identity crisis of satiety neurons leads to obesity
  

  Obesity − as research in the past decade has shown − is first and foremost a brain disease. Researchers at Helmholtz Zentrum München, partners in the German Center for Diabetes Research, have now discovered a molecular switch that controls the function of satiety neurons and therefore body weight. T more

• Why is junk food more attractive when on diet?
  

  Have you ever wondered why we crave the very foods that we try to avoid when dieting? Or wish there was a way to turn off the craving? Researchers from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have identified new brain circuits that may act as a brake on binge eating and junk food craving more

• Do chemicals make you fat?
  

  January 2019 saw the launch of the EU research project EDCMET, in which scientists from the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) are also involved. EDCMET stands for "Metabolic effects of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals: novel testing METhods and adverse outcome path-ways" and is aimed more

Infographics Obesity

Raspberries, Weight Loss, & The Galaxy

Raspberries, like all fruits, contain a complex mix of organic compounds. Unlike many fruits, however, raspberries have the less common distinction of lending their name to the compound that is a major contributor to their aroma – and one of the compounds that contributes to their flavour has also b more

Publications Obesity

• Chemoproteomics reveals baicalin activates hepatic CPT1 to ameliorate diet-induced obesity and hepatic steatosis [Biochemistry]

  Baicalin is a major flavonoid component from the herbal medicine Scutellaria baicalensis that has been shown to have an antisteatosis effect. Through quantitative chemoproteomic profiling, we discovered that baicalin acts as a natural allosteric activator of carnitine palmitoyltransferase 1 (CPT1), more

• Marine Drugs, Vol. 16, Pages 216: Dietary Supplementation with a Magnesium-Rich Marine Mineral Blend Enhances the Diversity of Gastrointestinal Microbiota

  Marine Drugs, Vol. 16, Pages 216: Dietary Supplementation with a Magnesium-Rich Marine Mineral Blend Enhances the Diversity of Gastrointestinal Microbiota Marine Drugs doi: 10.3390/md16060216 Authors: Erin K. Crowley Caitriona M. Long-Smith Amy Murphy Elaine Patterson Kiera Murphy more

• KDM4B protects against obesity and metabolic dysfunction [Medical Sciences]

  Obesity has become a major epidemic around the globe, with fatal comorbidities such as type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and cancer that have led to alarming health concerns in modern medicine. Although excess adipose tissue is associated with negative metabolic outcomes, the physiological functions o more