Green coffee bean extract (GCBE) also contains chlorogenic acids, and a recent study found that GCBE supplementation reduced body fat and resting heart rate in
obese human subjects, though researchers weren't sure whether the caffeine content of GCBE was partly responsible.»
Not exact matches
«From other research, a Mediterranean - style diet, richer in MUFA (from olive or rapeseed oils) and other unsaturated oils at the expense of saturated fats, appears protective of heart disease and cancer in
humans — even in overweight (but not
obese)
subjects.
Leptin levels in
human and rodent: measurement of plasma leptin and ob NAN in
obese and weight - reduced
subjects.
Two studies supporting this theory — one looking at mice, the other using
humans — found that a family of bacteria known as firmicutes was more plentiful in the
obese (20 percent more), whereas another bacteria called bacteroidetes was almost 90 percent lower in
obese subjects.
Calorie restriction in
humans is associated with weight loss, reduced inflammation and improved markers for cardiovascular and metabolic health in
obese -LCB- Formatting Citation -RCB-(9,10) as well as non-
obese (11,12)
subjects, proposing a novel therapy for increasing life span.
In
human trials, intermittent fasting has been shown to be equally effective as daily calorie restriction for causing weight loss in
obese subjects (16).
Because
humans obtain most of their vitamin D requirement from casual exposure to sunlight, the > 50 % decreased bioavailability of cutaneously synthesized vitamin D3 in the
obese subjects could account for the consistent observation by us and others that obesity is associated with vitamin D deficiency.
These results concur with studies on
human patients, which report a decrease in insulin sensitivity of between 44 and 72 % in
obese subjects compared with normal - weight control
subjects (34 — 37).