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New obesity discovery rewrites decades of fat science

For decades, scientists believed they understood one of the body’s key fat-burning proteins. Known as hormone-sensitive lipase, or HSL, the

Fat tissue, for as much as it’s been vilified, is an incredibly complex and essential bodily organ involved in energy

How do our muscles respond at the molecular level to exercise? Researchers at Helmholtz Munich and the German Institute of

The early treatment of obesity in children is effective in both the short and long term, researchers from Karolinska Institutet

This is a significant development that brings hope to the one billion individuals with obesity worldwide. Researchers led by Director

Obesity leads to altered energy metabolism and reduced insulin sensitivity of cells. The so-called “anti-obesity drugs” are increasingly used to

Published in the International Journal of Obesity, University of Minnesota Medical School and School of Public Health researchers led a

Rather than laziness and overeating, people become dangerously fat because of ‘health inequalities, genetic influences and social factors’, the Royal

In a study, led by George Howard, Dr.P.H., a biostatistics professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, researchers studied

Obesity will overtake smoking as the leading preventable cause of cancer in women, a study predicts one in ten new female