Obesity research refers to studies and investigations conducted to understand the causes, effects, and potential solutions for obesity, which is a medical condition characterized by excessive body weight and fat accumulation in the body.
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The revolution
in obesity research began less than five years ago with the landmark discovery of a gene for leptin, the weight - regulating hormone found in both mice and people.
«Despite decades
of obesity research two issues remain elusive in weight management: significant, long - term weight - loss maintenance and widely accessible programs,» she said.
However,
modern obesity research disagrees... and scientists are increasingly pointing their fingers at a hormone called leptin.
Modern obesity research is increasingly pointing to the brain playing a dominant role in the way our energy (fat) stores are regulated.
Researchers at the Childhood
Obesity Research Center at USC are looking at how maternal food intake affects fructose levels in breast milk as well as how specific elements in breast milk can alter a baby's developing gut bacteria, which neutralizes toxic byproducts of digestion.
Exposing infants and children to higher amounts of sugar during growth and development can produce problems with cognitive development and learning as well as create lifelong risk for obesity, diabetes, fatty liver disease and heart disease, said Goran, founding director of the
Childhood Obesity Research Center at the Keck School of Medicine.
«Less than 10 percent of 4 - to 8 - year - olds consume the USDA (U.S. Department of Agriculture) recommended daily servings of vegetables,» said Jennifer S. Savage, associate director of the Center for Childhood
Obesity Research at Penn State.
«It definitely looks like a packaged deal,» said the study's lead author, Josiane Broussard, PhD, a former graduate student at the University of Chicago who is now a post-doctoral research scientist at Cedars - Sinai Medical Center's Diabetes and
Obesity Research Institute in Los Angeles.
«There are some people who are vigorously active, but this number is offset by the huge number of individuals who are inactive,» says Edward Archer, a research fellow with the
Nutrition Obesity Research Center at the University of Alabama.
A study in the
journal Obesity Research examined the effects of differing calcium intakes in three groups of obese subjects placed on calorie - restricted diets.
«Gestational weight gain greater than the IOM recommendations has long - term implications for weight - related health,» said Elizabeth Widen, PhD, RD, postdoctoral fellow at the New
York Obesity Research Center in the Department of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, and Institute of Human Nutrition.
She is affiliated with the Appetite and
Obesity research group in the Department of Psychological Sciences and holds a doctorate in Psychology.
A University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health study published in the November 2007 issue of
Obesity Research found that per capita total daily intake of liquid calories in the United States increased 94 percent from 1965 to 2002.
In 1994, Jeffrey Friedman, Marilyn M. Simpson Professor and head of Rockefeller's Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, launched a new era in
obesity research by discovering a hormone called leptin, which acts on neurons in the brain's hypothalamus region to suppress hunger.
Even if the prospects for therapy are poor, the findings do help to validate the
mouse obesity research, says Rudy Leibel of Rockefeller University in New York City.
He also holds the Canada Research Chair in Metabolism and Obesity and is a co-director of the Metabolism and Childhood (MAC)-
Obesity Research Program.
Kravitz has a background in studying Parkinson's disease, and when he began
conducting obesity research a few years ago, he was struck by similarities in behavior between obese mice and Parkinsonian mice.
In addition, Mike has had extensive experience
performing obesity research both at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.
After 10 years with the Mid-Atlantic NORC and the cultivation of a broad range of experience in nutrition and
obesity research under the leadership of Alan Shuldiner, M.D., Sara is delighted to rejoin her colleagues at Research Diets.
Prior to opening Foodtrainers, Lauren worked at St. Luke's -
Roosevelt obesity research unit and developed a nutrition program for the Equinox fitness clubs.
A study undertaken by researchers from Birzeit University in Palestine, published in the peer -
reviewed Obesity Research and Clinical Practice Journal, put carbonation under the microscope for a period of six months.
I got an email one day after doing an economics podcast from a fellow who said... Named John Arnold who said he runs a foundation in Texas and they're thinking of getting
into obesity research.
«Exposure to heightened air pollution during childhood increases the risk for Hispanic children to become obese and, independent of that, to also develop Type 2 diabetes,» said Michael Goran, co-director of the Diabetes and
Obesity Research Institute at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and corresponding author of the study.
This study was supported by a VA Merit Grant Award to the Baltimore VA Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center and as part of an NHLBI - funded
Nutrition Obesity Research Center award.
Of nearly 3,000 people who maintained a 30 - pound (or more) weight loss for at least a year, 78 percent reported eating breakfast every day, according to 2002 study in the
journal Obesity Research.
Kay has worked as a private practice lactation consultant, a hospital lactation consultant, the lactation consultant for the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, for The Center for
Childhood Obesity Research at The Pennsylvania State University, and for the Pennsylvania Department of Health.
A recent study performed by researchers from the New
York Obesity Research Center at Columbia University delved into this and came to the following conclusions.
Energy expenditure variations «have never been measured in such an elegant way before,» says endocrinologist Eric Ravussin, director
of Obesity Research at Eli Lilly in Indianapolis.
She coordinated several clinical trials, including glucose clamp studies, at the Medical University of South Carolina with W. Timothy Garvey, M.D. Sara then worked for two years right here at Research Diets before moving to The University of Maryland School of Medicine and becoming the first Program Manager for the Mid-Atlantic Nutrition
Obesity Research Center (NORC).
Commissioned by the Obesity Health Alliance (OHA) the report, entitled «A «Watershed» Moment: Why it's Prime Time to Protect Children from Junk Food Adverts», is based on data collected and analysed by Drs Emma Boyland and Rosa Whalen from the University's Appetite and
Obesity research group.
And another study in
obesity research found levels of LDL cholesterol were also reduced as well as by applying the tincture in an oil or lotion topically to thighs reduces the thickness of fat.
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Kay has worked as a private practice lactation consultant, a hospital lactation consultant, the lactation consultant for the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, Pennsylvania Department of Health as the Breastfeeding Coordinator, and for The Center for Childhood
Obesity Research at The Pennsylvania State University.
A recent study
in Obesity Research & Clinical Practice, shows that blood sugar can be increased for a full 24 hours and put you on an eating spree the following day.
Obesity research at Brown University found similar trends.
The science of
obesity research is facinating.
Conducted simultaneously by researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Health and Wellness Center in Aurora, Colorado and Temple University's Center for
Obesity Research and Education in Philadelphia, the study shows subjects who consumed diet beverages lost an average of 5.90 kilograms: 44 per cent more than the water group, which lost an average of 4.08 kilograms.
Through projects at Duke Health, DCRI and the Duke Center for Childhood
Obesity Research, Armstrong and other Duke scientists are assessing the most effective strategies to reduce obesity in children, including programs that offer at - risk children access to free medical care, partnerships with municipal recreation programs across North Carolina, and even studying children's gut bacteria to determine how the gut microbiome is related to weight.
Obesity Research, 10 (6), 478 - 488.
Researchers on this project included lead author Ian M. Paul, Jennifer S. Savage and Michele E. Marini, Center for Childhood
Obesity Research, Penn State College of Health and Human Development and others.
Quoted in a recent ABC Health Insider article, Carla Wolper of
the Obesity Research Center at St. Luke's Hospital in New York says it well: «No food should be demonized... Obesity is a result of too many calories, not too much HFCS.»
In addition to their usefulness and clever design, I was pleased to learn that Slim & Sage donates 2 % of their profits to childhood
obesity research.