Showing posts with label fat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fat. Show all posts
Thursday, November 15, 2018

PDGF Signaling And Obesity

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Here is a study suggesting that Platelet-derived growth factors and signaling related to that factors plays an important role in obesity b...
Thursday, May 3, 2018

Exercise And Brown fat

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More inert white adipose tissue (WAT) is linked to a variety of obesity-related disorders, as opposed to the more metabolically active bro...
Sunday, April 8, 2018

High Fat Diet And the Aging Mouse Brain

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A high fat diet seems not to be very good for aging of the mouse brain .  Fasting and a low fat diet seemingly have different effects.  A...
Saturday, March 24, 2018

Cancer Stem Cells And Lipid Metabolism

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Cancer stem cells are highly dependent upon lipid metabolism; abstract: Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are an uncommon subset of tumor cell...
Saturday, February 24, 2018

Don’t Blame Your Genes

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It’s not your genes , it’s your appetite and eating habits. But weight loss averaged about 13 pounds over a year, regardless of gene...
Saturday, February 3, 2018

Yaks And The Fat Cells

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By Dennis Jarvis, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22519671 Of possible future relevance to humans, how ...
Monday, December 11, 2017

Fat Tails And Cell Signaling

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Cell signaling pathways responsible for fat deposition have been studied in fat-tailed sheep, a breed characterized by an appearance ass...
Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Obesity, Hypoxia, And Breast Cancer

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Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1273807 Hypoxia – oxygen deprivation – in tumor tissue can promote ca...
Sunday, July 9, 2017

Molecular Pathway Linking Colon Cancer To A High Fat Diet (And Obesity)

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By Attributed to Charles Mellin - WgF1LrUvFdNysA at Google Cultural Institute, zoom level maximum, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimed...
Saturday, July 8, 2017

More Against Red And Processed Meat

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By 4028mdk09 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25399566 Is enhanced mortality associated more...
Friday, April 21, 2017

Fat, Leptin, Mice, And Colon Cancer

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By The original uploader was Bigplankton at English Wikipedia Later versions were uploaded by Sunholm at en.wikipedia. - Human Genome wal...
Thursday, January 14, 2016

Going Nuts for Heart Health

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When I was young, the paradigm was ‘fat is fat”, and all forms of fat were to be reduced to the absolute minimum. That led to a carbohydrat...
Thursday, December 10, 2015

Eat Your Walnuts

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It’s time to eat some walnuts! When people in the study added 56 grams of walnuts (2 ounces, or about 14 walnuts) to their dail...
Monday, November 9, 2015

Addictive Foods?

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A study has investigated which types of food are most addictive. The results are not surprising: For the first time, a team of researchers...
Saturday, October 24, 2015

Fructose - Your Foe

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We all know that sugar is bad for us. This is why the World Health Organization recommends us to limit our sugar (sucrose) intake to six tea...