UNC School of Medicine researchers led by Jenny Ting, PhD, and colleagues, publish a new approach to weight loss and diabetes prevention. Scientists from the UNC School of Medicine discovere... Read more
Scientific investigations sometimes result in serendipitous discoveries which shift the investigations from one focus to another. In the case of researchers at Mayo Clinic in Arizona, studie... Read more
A spinach extract containing green leaf membranes called thylakoids decreases hedonic hunger with up to 95% – and increases weight loss with 43%. This has been shown in a recently publ... Read more
New understanding of the genes involved in taste perception and food preferences can lead to personalized nutrition plans effective not just in weight loss but in avoiding diseases such as c... Read more
Forget about fad diets and surgery. Researchers from ETH-Zurich have come up with a potential high-tech solution to the ongoing obesity epidemic: An implantable slimming aid that monitors fa... Read more
Weight loss or weight maintenance programmes online or by computer helped overweight and obese patients lose and/or maintain weight Computer and web-based weight management programmes may pr... Read more
From the Amazon description: As our knowledge of the human body becomes ever more exact, scientists have made remarkable leaps forward in many fields. Yet for one question that many of us wo... Read more
The ultimate goal is hPYY medication that obese people can take orally Researchers plan to create chewing gum that sneaks an appetite-suppressing hormone through the gut and into the blood L... Read more
As children get chubbier and chubbier, finding ways of motivating them to exercise becomes more and more important. Rich and Sheri Schmelzer and Alexandra O’Leary have taken the approa... Read more