Warning: High-Fat Diets Affect Your Brain, Not Just Your Body
Much research has pointed to how an unhealthy diet correlates to obesity, but has not explored how diet can bring about neurological changes in the brain. A recent Yale study …
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Harvard Researchers Explain the Reason for Genetic Obesity
Researchers from Harvard Medical School and MIT reeval a genetic circuit that controls whether our bodies burn or store fat. Like many other conditions, obesity is caused by an interplay …
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Did Childhood Sugar Intake Decades Ago Cause Today’s Obesity Epidemic?
Current obesity rates in adults in the United States could be the result of dietary changes that took place decades ago, according to a new study published by researchers at …
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Have A Fat Cat? Here Is The Diet They Need To Follow To Lose Weight
Does your cat lay around all day, only getting up to eat and visit the litter box? Chances are, he’s overweight. Maybe you’ve switched to the “diet” cat food or …
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A Low-Glycemic Diet is More Effective at Burning Calories
A new study from Boston Children’s Hospital found that all calories are not created equal, suggesting that a low-glycemic load diet is more effective than conventional approaches at burning calories …
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Eating Watermelon May Help Counter Detrimental Effects of an Unhealthy Diet
Watermelon Supplements Bring Health Benefits to Obese Mice Eating watermelon in the form of powdered supplements helped adult obese mice avoid some detrimental health effects of an unhealthy diet, according …
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Processed Foods Highly Correlated With Obesity Epidemic – Need to “Use Food as Medicine”
As food consumed in the U.S. becomes more and more processed, obesity may become more prevalent. Through reviewing overall trends in food, George Washington University (GW) researcher Leigh A. Frame, …
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Energy Drinks Significantly Increase Hyperactivity and Inattention in Children
New research from Yale University shows that middle-school children who consume heavily sweetened energy drinks are 66% more likely to be at risk for hyperactivity and inattention symptoms. The finding …
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