Most people regain the weight they lose from dieting within one or two years, in part because the body adapts by slowing metabolism and burning fewer calories. A meticulous study led by Boston Children’s Hospital, in partnership with Framingham State University, now finds that eating fewer carbohydrates increases the number of calories burned. The findings, published on November 14 in...
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Uncovering the whole story in diabetes
More than 400 million people worldwide suffer from type 2 diabetes, a disease characterized by increased blood glucose levels because the body’s normal way of controlling insulin release breaks down. But insulin is only one half of the story about what goes wrong in type 2 diabetes: the release of another hormone called glucagon, which...
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Big change from small player—mitochondrial background modulates whole body metabolism and gene expression
About 1.5 billion years ago, tiny visitors came to live inside the cells that later evolved into all plant and animal life—including humans. Those visitors were mitochondria, small organelles whose prominent role is producing 90 percent of the chemical energy cells need to survive. Evolutionarily speaking, humans, animals and plants are thus a combination of...
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Newly discovered compounds shed fresh light on whole grain health benefits
Scientists have discovered new compounds that may explain whole grain health benefits, reports a new study led by the University of Eastern Finland. A high intake of whole grains increased the levels of betaine compounds in the body which, in turn, was associated with improved glucose metabolism, among other things. The findings shed new light...
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Chronic diseases driven by metabolic dysfunction
New model suggests natural healing cycle becomes blocked by cellular miscommunication, allowing conditions like cancer, diabetes and some neurological disorders to persist; a small but dramatic autism trial offers evidence UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – SAN DIEGO IMAGE: THIS IS A FALSE-COLOR TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROGRAPH OF A MITOCHONDRION INSIDE A CELL Much of modern Western medicine is...
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Muscle Clocks Play a Role in Regulating Metabolism
Researchers untangle the multifarious nature of muscle aging. So far, the only reliable treatment is exercise. In the early 2000s, Stefano Schiaffino, a muscle physiologist at the University of Padova in Italy, was faced with puzzling results: two seemingly identical experiments involving hind leg muscles in rats had yielded different findings. Schiaffino and his team...
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Study provides new insights for ways to use cell metabolism to treat cancer
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI ACADEMIC HEALTH CENTER CINCINNATI–Researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine have discovered that cell metabolism plays an important role in the ability of cells to start a survival program called autophagy, an unwanted side effect of some anti-cancer drugs that helps some tumor cells dodge treatment and eventually regrow into...
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As the keto diet gains popularity, scientists explain what we do and don’t know
As Silicon Valley trendsetters, famous actors, and online health sites tout the low-carbohydrate, high-fat ketogenic, or “keto,” diet, scientists are working to study it – from how it impacts inflammation in the brain to its effects on weight and heart health, as well as any other potential health risks. Credit: CC0 Public Domain Among the...
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Eating breakfast burns more carbs during exercise and accelerates metabolism for next meal
Eating breakfast before exercise may “prime” the body to burn carbohydrates during exercise and more rapidly digest food after working out, University of Bath researchers have found. IMAGE: NEW RESEARCH PUBLISHED IN THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY SUGGESTS THAT EATING BREAKFAST COULD ‘PRIME’ THE BODY TO BURN CARBOHYDRATES DURING EXERCISE AND MORE RAPIDLY METABOLISE FOODS AFTER WORKING OUT...
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Vitamin B3 has a positive effect on damaged nerve cells in Parkinson’s patients
Unsteady hands, stiff muscles and slow movements – all these are typical symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. Some 220,000 people in Germany are affected by the disease, which becomes more likely to occur as people get older. It is caused by the loss of nerve cells in the brain and remains incurable. A team of researchers headed by...