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Beating Overeating!
This short-and-sweet video explains the biological mechanisms behind appetite and eating and how sugary, fatty foods can override our body’s natural signals to stop eating.
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Measuring cholesterol with a digital camera
Yep that’s right! Measuring blood cholesterol typically involves collecting a blood sample, but this new method developed by N. R. Shanker of the Sree Sastha Institute for Engineering and Technology uses digital photography to gauge the concentration of cholesterol in the creases of your fingers. This non-invasive and affordable technology could make it much easier to…
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Stories from Sao Paolo
In late May, I went to Sao Paolo, Brazil, to learn about nutrition in Brazil. Sao Paolo, or Sampa as Brazilians call it, is a giant city rampant with crime and poverty – a city where the gap between the haves and the have-nots is very large. The wealthy travel in helicopters to avoid crime…
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Walk it off!
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released this encouraging report showing that the proportion of adults who take a 10-minute walk at least once a week increased 62% between 2005 and 2010! Even though this still falls short of the federal guidelines for 150 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic exercise each week, these findings are…
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De-gendering eating disorders…
When you hear the terms “anorexia,” “bulimia,” and “binge-eating,” it’s pretty common to think first of a woman. But this recent study, published in the International Journal of Eating Disorders, found that the number of men who binge eat is actually not that much lower than the number of women. So just because men are underrepresented…
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Dr. T in mini-documentary about childhood obesity efforts
In this 8-minute mini-documentary about the interdisciplinary, collaborative efforts of Rutgers and the community to fight childhood obesity, Dr. T gets some anti-stigma ideas heard. Click the title above to watch the video.
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Stress and Obesity Short Course – UNIFESP, São Paulo, Brazil
Dr. T will be teaching a short course on Stress and Obesity at the Universidade Federal de São Paulo in May. Click the title above to see the syllabus and download the readings.
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Human fasting affects hyena diets too?
In a fun/crazy study, scientists showed that when human diets change, like when fasting for Lent, so too do other animals’ diets – like Spotted Hyenas! “Before Lent, 14.8% of hyena droppings contained donkey hairs, during Lent this increased to 33.1%, falling again to 22.2% once the fast was over.” According to the scientists, “Our study…
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Dieting in pregnancy linked to possible Type 2 Diabetes
A new study out of the UK shows that dieting around the time of conception leads to changes in gene expression in the genes that have been linked to obesity and Type 2 Diabetes. Two things to note before you run for the ice cream: (1) it was only genes implicated in obesity and Type…
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New formula for weight loss – losing it is twice as hard
Dr. Kevin Hall presented new findings indicating that the mathematical formula that the US government uses to calculate weight loss doesn’t account for a slow-down in your metabolism. It looks like weight loss is harder than we initially thought. Click here for the paper that describes the new, adjusted guidelines.
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