Tag: "science"
The Cure for Cancer: Prevention?
Earlier today, researchers from the American Institute for Cancer Research and the U.K.-based World Cancer Research Fund released their report: Policy and Action for Cancer Prevention Food, Nutrition, and Physical Activity: A Global Perspective A few days ago, I talked about the strong link between obesity and cancer that the AICR/WCRF has identified. With this [...]
HIIT Training: The Cure for Insulin Resistance, Type 2 Diabetes, Metabolic Disease and Obesity?
It’s official: HIIT training is AWESOME!!! Researchers from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland have concluded that: The efficacy of a high intensity exercise protocol, involving only 250 kcal of work each week, to substantially improve insulin action in young sedentary subjects is remarkable. This novel time-efficient training paradigm can be used as a strategy to [...]
Fibromyalgia: A New Test Leads To A Cause And Maybe A Cure
For years and years and years and years, people suffering with fibromyalgia have faced a battle on two fronts. They battle chronic pain and all of the associated physical, mental and emotional problems that come with chronic pain. They fight a public and medical perception that fibromyalgia is not a real medical condition. That the [...]
How To Reverse The Effects Of Type 2 Diabetes
Two new studies show how moderate exercise can: Counteract the effects of overeating, Reduce abnormal intra-muscular fat, Reduce the production of fat by-products Improve insulin sensitivity, Increase fat burning Reduce Fatty Liver by up to 40%, helping to prevent: Cirrhosis of the liver, Liver failure Liver transplantation Cancer Diabetes related heart disease . STUDY # [...]
Genetics Isn't Destiny
You’re 20 pounds overweight. You have been trying to lose that weight for years and years. Not matter how hard you try, the weight just won’t come off. Sound familiar? You bet. Maybe it’s your genetics? In the last few years, study after study has have linked genetics to obesity. Here are just a few [...]
Willpower In A Flash: The Photo Diet
They Say That A Picture Is Worth 1000 Words… Is This Picture Worth 20 Pounds? Maybe Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison recently asked 43 dieters to record what they ate over one week in words and in pictures. At the conclusion of the study, the researchers found that the dieters who photographed their meals [...]
Scientists Discover How to Create "Anti-Obesity" Brown Fat
Researchers at the Joslin Diabetes Center have been researching ways to generate fat loss by stimulating brown fat production. In a recent study (published in Nature), they have shown that a protein called BMP-7 can promote the development of brown fat. This is good news. While the white fat cells that cover our doughy North [...]
Fit and Fat?
Is it possible to be fit and fat at the same time? Researchers at Albert Einstein College found that despite their weight, nearly a third of obese people are not at high risk of diabetes or heart disease. OK, not exactly a ringing endorsement in favor of obesity, but how about this… A recent German [...]
Health and Fitness in a Bottle: Big Pharma Discovers their Holy Grail
Scientists from the Salk Institute’s Gene Expression Laboratory may have discovered Big Pharma‘s Holy Grail of Pharmaceuticals. A pill that would allow you to reap all of the benefits of vigorous exercise while sitting on the couch watching re-runs of Seinfeld. How about that! Scientists from the Salk Institute’s Gene Expression Laboratory have reported (in [...]
Super Carbs!!! – Obesity Research Update #5
Researchers at the National Institute for Agricultural Botany in the U.K. have produced a genetically modified form of SUPER wheat. This wheat has the SUPER ability to release fewer calories into the body compared to other varieties of wheat created by God or man. Yay, scientists!!! So, how does it work? According to this article, [...]
Scientists Discover New Obesity Gene – Obesity Research Update #4
Obesity researcher, Professor Philippe Froguel and his team have discovered a new obesity gene. Apparently, this gene ( PCSK1 ) plays a part in the maturation of various hormones that control food intake. This means that if you have a mutated version of this gene, you are predisposed to severe obesity. Severe obesity, not just [...]
Scientists discover the Couch Potato gene
A group of researchers, from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, have mapped out 23 specific chromosomal locations that account for 84% of the behavioral differences between low activity (see lazy) mice and high activity mice (see type A super achievers) – sorry, no human tests yet. Link to Study # 1 Link to [...]
Epigenetics & Obesity – Obesity Research Update #3
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have made a groundbreaking discovery – Overweight moms give birth to children who become even more overweight and who in turn have children who become even more overweight and so on and so on. Damn! Maybe I have been wrong all these years. Maybe our body composition is determined [...]
The Big Breakfast Diet
A new study, out of Virginia Commonwealth University, suggests that your grandma was right! Eat a big breakfast and you won’t be hungry for the rest of the day. Yay Grandma!!! The Study The study compared a “Big Breakfast” or BB diet plan with a low carb / Atkins style diet plan. The BB group [...]
Eugenics Alert! Physical Fitness Leads to Crime…
Researchers with the University of Arkansas have found a link between your physical fitness and the likelihood that you will commit a crime and go to jail. More specifically, when the researchers looked at the physical characteristics of about 5,000 Arkansas inmates, they found that most were athletically fit when they entered prison. The researchers [...]
