7/29/11

Posted 7/29/11

  • Dolphin adipocytes may offer healing ability. Click Here 
  • Results suggest that the rush to provide calorie information may not prove to be the best approach to fighting the obesity epidemic. Click Here 
  • In this setting, mandatory menu labeling did not promote healthier food-purchasing behavior. Click Here 
  • Calorie information seems to interfere with the effect of a tax on high-calorie foods. Click Here 
  • Confronting reality: pitfalls of calorie posting. Click Here 
  • Consumer Estimation of Recommended and Actual Calories at Fast Food Restaurants. Click Here 
  • Increase in Metabolic Syndrome-Related Hospitalizations in Relation to Environmental Sources of Persistent Organic Pollutants. Click Here 
  • Contrary to conceptual predictions, this study failed to identify an interaction between treatment preference and weight loss. Click Here 
  • Study offers clues to emotional eating. Click Here 
  • Prevention of maternal aging-associated oocyte aneuploidy and meiotic spindle defects in mice by dietary and genetic strategies. Click Here 
  • Unfattening our children: forks over feet. Click Here 
  • Diet vs exercise for the prevention of pediatric obesity: the role of exercise. Click Here 
  • Workshop on the Role of Obesity in Cancer Survival and Recurrence. Click Here 
  • Fat-Free Mass Predictions through a Bayesian Network Enable Body Composition Comparisons in Various Populations. Click Here 
  • Call for Papers: Self-Regulation, Motivation, and Psychosocial Factors in Weight Management. Click Here 
  • NIH Grant Opportunity: Geographic and Contextual Influences on Energy Balance-Related Health Behaviors (R01). Click Here 
  • Brain Glucose Sensing And Obesity. Click Here 
  • Intentional dietary weight loss was not significantly associated with increased all-cause mortality over 12 y of follow-up in older overweight or obese adults. Click Here 
  • Weight loss appears to be associated with low-order improvements in executive/attention functioning and memory in obese but not in overweight individuals. Click Here 
  • Efficacy of fasting calorie restriction on quality of life among aging men. Click Here 
  • An evolutionary perspective on the trans-generational basis of obesity. Click Here 
  • Osteocalcin: a new link between bone and energy metabolism. Some evolutionary clues. Click Here