Urban Gardens Emerge as a Surprising Weapon in Palau’s Obesity Crisis
New research in npj Urban Sustainability finds that urban gardening in Palau is associated with greater consumption of traditional fruits ...
Tag: obesity
Scientists Validate a Bacterial Lipase Model That Could Speed Up Anti-Obesity Drug Discovery
Indonesian researchers have validated the thermostable bacterial enzyme lipase ITB 2.1 as a reliable structural and functional model for screening ...
Gut Microbe Link Revealed in Down Syndrome Obesity Risk
A new mouse study shows that gene overdosage in Down syndrome reshapes the gut microbiome's production of a protective metabolite, ...
Obesity’s Toll on the Brain: How Midlife Weight Drives Cognitive Decline and Dementia Risk
A comprehensive review in Nature Reviews Neurology details how obesity damages the hypothalamus, hippocampus and cerebrovasculature to drive cognitive decline, ...
Gut Bacteria Linked to Visceral Fat Through Glycogen Synthesis Pathway
New research in Experimental & Molecular Medicine links specific gut bacterial taxa and the glycogen synthesis pathway to the accumulation ...
Cold-Activated RNA Eraser Switches On Fat Burning Beyond UCP1
A new Nature Metabolism study shows that the cold-activated RNA demethylase ALKBH5 stabilizes CKB mRNA to drive UCP1-independent, creatine-based heat ...
Obesity Pill Pep19 Rebalances Body Fat Without Weight Loss in Trial
A 90-day randomized trial in Brazil found that the oral peptide Pep19 significantly improved abdominal fat distribution, HbA1c, and insulin ...
Belly Fat, Not BMI, May Be the Deadliest Predictor of Heart-Kidney-Metabolic Disease
A large NHANES-based cohort study finds that normal weight adults with central adiposity carry the highest cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic multimorbidity burden and ...
Malaysia’s obesity crisis mapped: 54% of adults overweight as research lags behind
A decade-spanning review of 179 studies reveals that more than half of Malaysian adults are overweight or obese, while the ...
Behavioural Weight Loss Programmes Deliver Only Modest Gains Across Asia, Major Review Finds
A systematic review of 55 randomised trials finds behavioural weight loss programmes in Asia produce statistically significant but clinically small ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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