A derivative of the green tea leaf may help reduce risk factors for
heart disease, including bad cholesterol and high blood pressure,
researchers will report at an Experimental Biology meeting next
week.
Researchers have expressed the need for long-term studies on the
effects of low-carbohydrate diets, especially to assess the impact
of the diet on people over 50 years old.
With cancer rates expected to rise 50 per cent to 15 million by
2020, a WHO report suggests that if governments act now, there are
several ways to reduce these rates - especially through diet.
Waist circumference in young people has risen more steeply over the
past 10-20 years than body mass index, particularly in girls,
report researchers. Waist size is linked to higher risk of diabetes
and high cholesterol.
Calls for urgent action to treat obesity are again in the
headlines, following a new assessment that up to 1.7 billion people
worldwide could be overweight or obese.
People who eat breakfast are significantly less likely to be obese
and diabetic than those who usually do not, researchers reported
this week at an American Heart Association conference.
The American Heart Association has released guidelines on tackling
prevention of heart disease during childhood, including diet
changes and in some cases, drugs for high blood pressure and high
cholesterol.
Elderly men and women with normal body weight still may be at risk
for developing type 2 diabetes if they have large amounts of muscle
fat or visceral abdominal fat, according to new study, which
questions the relationship between...
Eating 100 fewer calories a day could help prevent weight gain in
the average individual, says one team of scientists in the US,
therefore curbing the rise in obesity. Yet others argue that
fighting the epidemic could be much more...
Researchers at the University of Leicester in the UK have launched
one of the biggest studies into childhood obesity in the country.
The dietary behaviour of more than 7000 South Asian children will
be assessed, with the aim of improving...
European researchers involved in the Eurobesity project are
assessing the candidate genes that might be involved in obesity to
find out why some people prefer a high-fat diet and others do not.
Despite the widely held belief that adolescents who come from
higher-income families tend to be less obese than comparable
children from families with less income, a new study suggests that
this may not be uniformly true for both...
Obesity and being overweight in adulthood are associated with large
decreases in life expectancy and increases in early mortality,
according to the latest research. The report, published in this
month's Annals of Internal Medicine,...
Eating a diet with less fat and more carbohydrates could lead to a
modest but significant reduction in body weight - whatever the US
fad no-carbo Atkins diet claims. The question is, does the type of
carbohydrate, simple or complex,...
Dutch supplier of nutritional oils Loders Croklaan Lipid Nutrition
reported this week that its CLA product Clarinol has been shown to
significantly reduce body fat in women.
The cost effectiveness of initiatives to treat and prevent obesity
needs to be addressed in order to stem the rising rates of the
disease in children, according to a new report by the UK's National
Health Service and the University...
PharmaLinks, a drug discovery initiative between the Universities
of Glasgow and Strathclyde in Scotland, has won a £1 million
research contract to develop an anti-obesity drug discovered at
Strathclyde's Institute for Drug Research.
A team of US and UK-based scientists presented research about an
appetite-reducing hormone found naturally in the body this week.
The findings are seen as an important step towards creating an
obesity-fighting drug.
New research suggests that losing even modest amounts of weight can
pay off in better health. Researchers at the University of North
Carolina report in Obesity Research this month that losing
weight decreases activity of a key enzyme...
Study results presented this weekend at the American Dietetic
Association's annual meeting showed that patients with type 2
diabetes who used calcium-rich meal replacements in conjunction
with a prescription appetite suppressant...
Future weight loss diets could become 'custom-made' for each
individual, according to scientists working on a three-year
international research project funded by the European Union. The
project, known as Nugenob, explores...
The Ephedra Education Council (EEC) has responded to yesterday's
news that as many as one third of the US population now suffers
from obesity with a statement promoting the safety and efficacy of
the dietary supplement ephedra.
The weight-loss services provider Weight Watchers International is
suing Florida-based supplement company USA Prescriptions for
placing unauthorised pop-up ads for diet drugs on the
WeightWatchers website.
Obesity continued to increase dramatically during the late 1990s
forAmericans of all ages, with nearly one-third of all adults now
classified asobese, according to new data from the 1999-2000
National Health and Nutrition Examination...
Childhood obesity rates have reached staggering levels and obesity
has nearly surpassed smoking as the leading cause of preventable
death among Americans, according to a new Datamonitor report.
The forthcoming World Heart Day has prompted leading experts to
comment in an editorial that rising cardiovascular disease, the
leading cause of death worldwide, has become a pandemic which
urgently needs to be addressed.
A study has found that compliance with the Dietary Guidelines
established in 1980 advising Americans on nutrition to promote
health may reduce the overall risk for cancer.
European obesity experts, meeting to discuss the growing problem at
a summit in Copenhagen, have warned that obesity will overtake
smoking as Britain's top preventable killer. They have also accused
the government of being too...
A new report by the American Obesity Association which claims that
54 per cent of US military personnel are overweight and a further
6.2 per cent are obese has prompted the Ephedra Education Council
there to offer to educate the military...
Today's fast food eating sedentary lifestyle which leads to
obesity, is not only putting people at risk of heart problems and
diabetes but also of cancer.
A substance derived from dogfish sharks suppresses appetite and
decreases body weight in rodents making it a potential anti-obesity
treatment, according to new research.
Nutrition 21, the US producer of chromium picolinate products, has
announced that it will provide data to the US Institute of Medicine
(IOM) to help it assess the safety of the product.
More research published in the lastest issue of the American
Journal of Clinical Nutrition finds further cause to promote
wholegrains. The food protects against cardiovascular disease ,
type 2 diabetes, and certain cancers thanks...
Across the Western world, obesity continues to affect more and more
people. One of the solutions is a fat tax on high-fat foods, which
although unpopular, demonstrates the extent of the problem,
Professor Andreu Palou, a member of...
An extract from the ginseng berry could prove to be an effective
treatment for diabetes and obesity, according to researchers from
the University of Chicago.
A new dietary supplement designed specifically for children has
been launched in the US. PediaLean from Klein-Becker is said to
help children lose weight, even without a calorie-controlled diet.
A new weight loss supplement which is being marketed as an
alternative to allegedly dangerous herbs such as ephedra and ma
huang has been launched in the US state of Florida.
Researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center have identified
a protein that enables the body to overcome resistance to the
hormone leptin - the findings could help scientists move one step
closer to creating a drug therapy...
Next Pharmaceuticals has launched Relora, an ingredient derived
from natural plant extracts, which it claims is a safe and
effective alternative to kava.
Joshua Tree, the former construction company which recently
completed the acquisition of American Health & Diet Centers
(AHDC), has released three new weight loss products designed to
meet demand for dieting products in the summer...
Consumer advocacy group Public Citizen on Tuesday asked US
regulators to ban Abbott Laboratories' diet drug Meridia, linking
the anti-obesity medicine to several deaths in the United States
and Europe.
Many obese children and adolescents have impaired glucosetolerance,
a condition that often appears before thedevelopment of type 2
diabetes, according to researchersfrom the US.
Italy has become the first country to ban the use of the
anti-obesity drug sibutramine, prompting fears that other European
countries will follow suit. The drug is sold as Reductil in Italy.
There is yet more evidence this week that the holy grail of
over-eaters - a pill which can help them lose weight - may yet
become a reality. Researchers from the University of Dundee in
Scotland have discovered how the body burns...
A mouse that was genetically genetically altered to get fat,
remained slim and trim thanks to the removal of a particular gene,
according to researchers in the US.
An experimental drug called NN2211 has been shown to suppress
appetite and promote weight loss in monkeys, findings which are
being hailed as a significant step forward in the ongoing search
for an anti-fat pill.
