Belly fat is good, but when there is too much, it can increase the risk of chronic disease. Experts often recommend drinking less alcohol, eating more protein, and lifting weight to reduce belly fat. Furthermore, belly fat can disfigure your shape and make you feel like you are pregnant if you are a woman. Women...
POSTED BY MATT SHIPMAN-NC STATE A new study highlights the negative consequences associated with “yo-yo dieting,” also known as weight cycling. The work underscores how toxic yo-yo dieting can be and how difficult it can be for people to break the cycle. “Yo-yo dieting—unintentionally gaining weight and dieting to lose weight only to gain it back...
By Isabella Cueto The descent into dementia can feel like traversing a minefield, coming across new symptoms without the hope of a cure. But some dementia patients, even up to 10% of people diagnosed with the condition, might actually have undiagnosed liver disease and accompanying neurological problems, a new study in JAMA Open Network suggests. Most...
Findings may have far-reaching implications for the responsiveness of cancers to epigenetic therapies Peer-Reviewed Publication BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE (Boston)—One of the major challenges in cancer research and clinical care is understanding the molecular basis for therapeutic resistance as a major cause of long term treatment failures. In cases of melanoma, the main targeted...
