understand the role of heredity and
genes in body weight (you'll use this information to create realistic personal and family food and fitness goals)
Not exact matches
Two recent studies — one
in mice and another
in humans — provide new evidence that a mind - numbingly complex array of
genes influence
body weight.
The
body relies on cells to process and store energy, and changes
in genes that regulate these functions can cause an imbalance that leads to excessive energy storage and
weight gain.
After analyzing brain tissue samples, the researchers identified an area of the
gene where a single change reduced BDNF levels
in the hypothalamus, a key area that controls eating and
body weight.
This
gene therapy resulted
in high - fat diet mice having a reduced
body weight, building up less fat, expending more energy, and showing evidence of improved leptin - signalling.
In Tibetans, the ADH7
gene variant is associated with higher
weight and BMI scores, which could help the
body store energy during particularly lean times on the hardscrabble plateau.
This is also true
in females, suggesting that this
gene can be very important
in actually regulating
body weight, but also these animals were shown to be highly insulin - sensitive, and have no insulin resistance on a high - fat diet.
To understand how obesity occurs and how it may be treated requires an understanding of the
genes that regulate
body weight and how their function is influenced by environmental factors such as diets high
in calories and dietary fat.
Paternally inherited Dp / + (patDp / +) mice showed expected increases
in the
gene expression
in bone, normal postnatal growth and
body weight acquisition compared to the littermate controls.
The 120 repeat R6 / 2 mouse model of HD expresses a human transgene containing exon 1 of the mutant huntingtin
gene and faithfully replicates many of the symptoms of the disease, including progressive loss of
body weight, marked impairments
in cognition, and severe motor deficits.
When you're fasting your
body uses fat as fuel and preserves muscle.Researchers from the National Institute of Aging theorized
in 2003 that intermittent fasting helped trigger the SIRT1
gene, thought to both stimulate cells to release fat for use as an energy source and to deactivate the
genes responsible for promoting fat storage.Other research conducted at the University of California at Berkeley indicate that this type of alternate day fasting can protect against diabetes and excessive
weight gain.
«Dark chocolate, a high source of polyphenols, and flavanols
in particular, has lately received attention for its possible role
in modulating obesity because of its potential effect on fat and carbohydrate metabolism, as well as on satiety... The research undertaken to date has shown promising results, with the possible implication of cocoa / dark chocolate
in the modulation of obesity and
body weight through several mechanisms including decreasing the expression of
genes involved
in fatty acid synthesis, reducing the digestion and absorption of fats and carbohydrates and increasing satiety.»
Green tea -LRB--)- epigallocatechin -3-gallate reduces
body weight with regulation of multiple
genes expression
in adipose tissue of diet - induced obese mice
Sure I would love to loose the
weight and have a Beach
Body I can be proud of... but when you factor
in my Hypothyroidism and my family «Fat»
genes... I'm stuck!
If all the odds are stacked
in your favor and you are born with good
genes that gave you a mesomorphic
body type, which puts on muscle quickly, then you need to know that the chances of putting on a lot of muscle
in your first year of training with
weights is very good.
During the past five years of research, Dr. Sara discovered crucial truths locked
in our
genes — truths about how you age, how you gain
weight, how your
body handles stress, and so much more.