Test of weight-loss candidate in mice shows that there is still room for improvement in a burgeoning field. By Asher Mullard Researchers adapted a peptide similar to the one used in the obesity drug Wegovy to have an even more potent weight-loss response in mice.Credit: Lise Aaserud/NTB/Alamy With obesity drugs now helping people to slim...
by Salk Institute Graphical abstract. Credit: Cell Metabolism (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2022.12.004 Obesity and metabolic diseases, such as diabetes, are extremely common in the United States. Tiny proteins called microproteins have long been overlooked in research, but new evidence demonstrates that they have an important role in metabolism. Salk scientists have discovered that both brown and white fat is...
by King’s College London Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Over-60s with a good appetite have more diverse and different communities of microbes in their gut than those with a poor appetite, a study has found. The study, published today in the Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle from King’s College London and the University of Southampton, is the first...
by UT Southwestern Medical Center A combination of immunotherapy agents that encourages some immune cells to eat cancer cells and alert others to attack tumors put mice with a deadly type of brain cancer called glioblastoma into long-term remission, a new study led by UT Southwestern scientists suggests. The finding, published online March 20, 2020,...
THE OBESITY SOCIETY SILVER SPRING, Md.– Researchers have discovered that meal timing strategies such as intermittent fasting or eating earlier in the daytime appear to help people lose weight by lowering appetite rather than burning more calories, according to a report published online today in the journal Obesity, the flagship journal of The Obesity Society....
By Catharine Paddock PhD Fact checked by Gianna D’Emilio New research confirms that shifting mealtimes to a smaller window, earlier in the day can aid weight loss. It also reveals that weight loss from this type of meal schedule is likely due to appetite and hunger hormone reduction, rather than calorie burning. A paper that...
By Catharine Paddock PhD Fact checked by Gianna D’Emilio New research confirms that shifting mealtimes to a smaller window, earlier in the day can aid weight loss. It also reveals that weight loss from this type of meal schedule is likely due to appetite and hunger hormone reduction, rather than calorie burning. New research finds that eating...
August 21, 2018 by Molly Birnbaum, Brown University Rachel Herz, an adjunct assistant professor in Brown’s Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, arrives at an East Greenwich, Rhode Island, café feeling stressed. She’d lost a document when her computer crashed and she isn’t sure how to retrieve it. “If I were an emotional eater, I’d be...
Your skeleton is much more than the structure supporting your muscles and other tissues. It produces hormones, too. And Mathieu Ferron knows a lot about it. The researcher at the Montreal Clinical Research Institute (IRCM) and professor at Université de Montréal’s Faculty of Medicine has spent the last decade studying a hormone called osteocalcin. Produced...
Key brain cells which control our appetite discovered by scientists at University of Warwick Tanycytes found – for the first time – to detect amino acids from food and tell the brain directly that we feel full Foods high in two key amino acids – such as pork shoulder, beef sirloin steak, chicken, mackerel, plums, apricots, avocadoes,...
