A professor at the Indiana University School of Medicine has explained that the real culprit behind getting fat is eating sugar and not fat. Aaron Carroll, a pediatrics professor, has said that it is perfectly fine to eat avocados, nuts, cream, and butter. Sugar Linked To Weight Gain And Obesity Consuming fats does not make...
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Gene therapy with BMP4 protects against weight gain and insulin resistance in mice
“By increasing BMP4, we can increase the metabolic rate, but we only see this in initially lean mice. Overweight mice proved to have a BMP4 resistance, which is also an important finding,” says Jenny Hoffmann, first author of the article and active at the Lundberg Laboratory for Diabetes Research. She recently earned her PhD in...
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Study Suggests Link Between Artificial Sweeteners and Weight Gain
NEW YORK — Could the no-calorie sweetener you rely on to replace sugar in your diet actually cause weight gain instead of the weight loss you were expecting? The answer may be yes, according to a new study. “People are generally consuming non-nutritive sweeteners believing they are a ‘healthy choice’, but this may not be...