Obesity

News Obesity

• Emergence of calorie burning fat cells
  

  1.9 billion people in the world are overweight. Of these, 650 million people are obese, which increases the risk of secondary diseases such as high blood pressure or cancer. Professor Martin Klingenspor and his team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) examine how our fat metabolism affects o more

• Deciphering how the brain controls our weight
  

  Professor Jens Brüning, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research in Cologne, Germany, has been honoured with the 2019 Heinrich Wieland Prize for his pioneering work on how the brain regulates the uptake, storage, and use of energy in the body. He has shown that certain brain cent more

• Obesity risk quantification: a jump towards the future through the lens of artificial intelligence applied to lipid science
  

  According to WHO, nearly 1 out of 6 adults is obese. This makes obesity a prime threat to human health because it increases mortality and morbidity. In daily healthcare practice, the go-to indicator of overweight and obesity is the body mass index (BMI), a calculated relation between body weight and more

White papers Obesity

• Measuring Changes in Intracellular Metabolism
  

  Dysregulation of cellular energy metabolism is a common factor in a variety of disorders including diabetes and obesity as well as cancer 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