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| Red wine's resveratrol may help battle obesity |
| Resveratrol, a compound present in grapes and red wine, reduces the number of fat cells and may one day be used to treat or prevent obesity, according to a new study. The results will be presented at The Endocrine Society's 90th Annual Meeting in San Francisco. |
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| Is it time to revisit the current protein recommendations? Many Americans may benefit from eating a higher-protein diet, says a summit of protein... |
| Current protein recommendations were established with the goal of preventing deficiency, but newer research indicates that many adults may benefit from eating more than the minimum requirement. These findings are presented in a supplement in the May issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition1 describing the conclusions of a Protein Summit held last spring, which brought together the world's leading scientists in protein research. |
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| APPETITE MAY BE HARD-WIRED |
| For those who struggle to lose weight, the problem might lie in their brains, not their stomachs. Researchers have found that our natural appetite could be built into our brains just after birth, and may then be set for the rest of our lives. |
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| CALORIC SWEETENER USE GROWS WORLDWIDE; SOFT DRINKS ARE CHIEF CULPRIT, STUDY SHOWS. |
| Use of caloric sweeteners, including sugar, has grown markedly around the world over the past 40 years, according to a new University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study. |
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| HOW FAST FOOD CAN FOOL YOU |
| Fast food bypasses our body's natural appetite control systems, argue British researchers, which is why they make us fat. |
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| BELLIES: IT'S MORE THE BINGE THAN THE BEER |
| The unhealthy 'beer belly' might be better known as a 'binge belly', according to a new U.S. study on how drinking alcohol affects the accumulation of abdominal fat. |
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| U.S. AND THE U.N. AT WAR OVER SUGAR GUIDELINES |
| The United States has accused the United Nations food and health bodies of failing to get their science right in a report that calls for limiting sugar intake for health reasons. |
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| NEW STUDY FINDS YOGURT MAY HELP BURN BODY FAT. YOGURT EATERS LOST 61% MORE BODY FAT. |
| While some calorie-conscious people may drop dairy products when they're dieting, a new study suggests this strategy could backfire. |
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| RESEARCH SHEDS LIGHT ON WHY PROTEIN-RICH DIETS AID WEIGHT LOSS |
| As nutrition experts debate the ideal combination of protein, carbohydrates and fat that people should eat, new research explains for the first time how and why a moderately high protein diet may be the best for losing weight. |
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| DRINKING WATER CAN HELP YOUR DIET |
| Drinking water can help you in your efforts to lose weight, says a Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center nutritionist. |
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| 'AAAS' SPEAKERS REPORT WORLDWIDE 'EPIDEMIC' OF OBESITY |
| Obesity, considered until recently to be an exclusively "Western" disease, now poses a serious threat to the health of developing nations, particularly children, say scientists studying this emerging "global epidemic of fat." |
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| UNIQUE UNC STUDY CONFIRMS SUSPECTED WORLDWIDE EPIDEMIC OF CHILDHOOD OBESITY |
| Twenty-five of every 100 U.S. children are either overweight or obese, but children from other major nations are beginning to weigh too much as well, a new University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study concludes. Sixteen percent of Russian youths are overweight or downright fat, and the figure for Chinese children is 7 percent. |
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| LEPTIN AND OBESITY: ALL IN THE HEAD? |
| In the absence of leptin signaling, mice, like humans, grow extremely obese and develop many of the common sequellae of obesity in humans, such as diabetes and steatosis of the liver. Introduction of leptin directly into the hypothalamus potently reverses the overeating and obesity seen in leptin-deficient animals. |
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| HOW TO FIGHT WITH FATNESS? |
| Trying to get rid of the overweight quicker, many go on fasting or take excessive physical exercises. Meanwhile, this isn't the best way to grow thin, since it results in proteolysis of proteins, but not in splitting the fat, which is a chief reason of overweight. At the same time, metabolic processes start passing strongly disbalanced. |
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