http://www.weight-watch-blog.com/ New Article Alert From From Weight watch blog Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:28:37 GMT en-us http://www.weight-watch-blog.com/images/blogs/new-article-alert-44530.jpg http://www.weight-watch-blog.com/ 100 74 http://www.weight-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/7-2008/people-only-eat-1-when-the-chips-are-brown.html http://www.weight-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/7-2008/people-only-eat-1-when-the-chips-are-brown.html Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:28:37 GMT Dr. Don Henne isn't wasting his degree when he's standing by the deep fryer waiting for potato slices to turn brown. He's conducting research that will help the potato industry and consumers. Henne, an assistant research scientist in the Texas AgriLife Research plant pathology program in Amarillo, is one of a number of who are trying to find answers about zebra chip. Zebra chip is the latest disease to plague the potato industry, particularly those in the chipping business........ ]]> http://www.weight-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/7-2008/making-more-bone-and-less-fat.html http://www.weight-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/7-2008/making-more-bone-and-less-fat.html Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:28:37 GMT A small protein may have a big role in helping you make more bone and less fat, researchers say. "The pathways are parallel, and the idea is if you can somehow disrupt the fat production pathway, you will get more bone," says Dr. Xingming Shi, bone biologist at the Medical College of Georgia Institute of Molecular Medicine and Genetics........ ]]> http://www.weight-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/6-2008/weight-gain-kidney-disease.html http://www.weight-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/6-2008/weight-gain-kidney-disease.html Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:28:37 GMT Healthy individuals who gain weight, even to a weight still considered normal, are at risk for developing chronic kidney disease (CKD), as per a research studyappearing in the September 2008 issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN). The study suggests that CKD should be added to the list of conditions that are linked to weight gain, including diabetes and hypertension........ ]]> http://www.weight-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/6-2008/gene-linked-to-adult-onset-obesity.html http://www.weight-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/6-2008/gene-linked-to-adult-onset-obesity.html Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:28:37 GMT Scientists at the University of Minnesota have discovered a gene that may provide a clue as to why obesity rates increase with age. The research was published recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Scientists in the lab of Kevin Wickman, Ph.D., associate professor of pharmacology at the University of Minnesota Medical School, removed a single gene from mice as part of a research study that's ongoing to understand how the brain controls heart function. While some cardiac deficiencies were detected in these mice, the scientists unexpectedly observed that these mice exhibited a predisposition to adult-onset obesity........ ]]> http://www.weight-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/5-2008/a-foamy-drink-and-the-future-of-food.html http://www.weight-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/5-2008/a-foamy-drink-and-the-future-of-food.html Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:28:37 GMT What the Long, Strange Trip of Tejate, a Maize-based Mexican Drink, reveals about a Worldwide Agricultural System at a Crossroads. Michael Pollan's recent bestseller The Omnivore's Dilemma revealed to millions of readers the centrality, and dangers, of commodity corn in the modern industrialized agriculture system as developed in the United States. The "modern varieties" of corn, which are low in diversity, are now taking over the very birthplace of the crop, Southern Mexico, where it is known as maize. In their paper for the new issue of Current Anthropology, "Food Globalization and Local Diversity: The Case of Tejate, a Traditional Maize and Cacao Beverage from Oaxaca, Mexico" authors Daniela Soleri, David Cleveland, and Flavio Aragon-Cuevas trace the unique history of the ancient drink, and show how it could be the harbinger for the future of agriculture and food variety. In this indigenous drink is contained a central irony of globalization, for the very set of forces that threaten to destroy tejate may in the end save both the drink and the diverse varieties of maize........ ]]> http://www.weight-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/5-2008/too-much-or-too-little-weight-gain-poses-risks.html http://www.weight-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/5-2008/too-much-or-too-little-weight-gain-poses-risks.html Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:28:37 GMT Women who gain more or less than recommended amounts of weight during pregnancy are likely to increase the risk of problems for both themselves and their child, as per a new report by the RTI International-University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Evidence-based Practice Center. The report, which was supported by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) in partnership with the American Dietetic Association, is based on a systematic review of 150 studies that assessed the short- and long-term effects of maternal weight gain on pregnancy, mothers, fetuses, and children. The studies were published in English between January 1990 and October 2007........ ]]> http://www.weight-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/4-2008/macadamia-nuts-for-healthy-heart.html http://www.weight-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/4-2008/macadamia-nuts-for-healthy-heart.html Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:28:37 GMT Macadamia nuts included in a heart healthy diet reduced low-density cholesterol (bad cholesterol) and should be included among nuts with qualified health claims, according to researchers. "We looked at macadamia nuts because they are not currently included in the health claim for tree nuts, while other tree nuts are currently recommended as part of a heart healthy diet," says Dr. Amy E. Griel, a recent Penn State Ph.D. recipient in nutrition and now senior nutrition scientist at The Hershey Company. "Macadamia nuts have higher levels of monosaturated fats, like those found in olive oil compared with other tree nuts"........ ]]> http://www.weight-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/4-2008/silver-nanoparticles-food-safety.html http://www.weight-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/4-2008/silver-nanoparticles-food-safety.html Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:28:37 GMT Byron Brehm-Stecher, assistant professor in food science and human nutrition, has some big ideas for his work with tiny particles. His latest research project will allow him to study the potential of using silver nanoparticles to improve the safety of the world's food supply. Eventhough the particles can't be added directly to foods, the ultimate goal of this project is to develop food-related applications such as microbe-resistant fabrics or non-biofouling surfaces. The research, he said, could have a large impact on the safety of foods........ ]]> http://www.weight-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/4-2008/the-lean-gene.html http://www.weight-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/4-2008/the-lean-gene.html Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:28:37 GMT Your friend can eat whatever she wants and still fit into her prom dress, but you gain five pounds if you just look at that chocolate cake. Before you sign up for Weight Watchers and that gym membership, though, you may want to look at some recent research from Tel Aviv University and save yourself a few hundred dollars........ ]]> http://www.weight-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/3-2008/are-you-what-you-eat-maybe-not.html http://www.weight-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/3-2008/are-you-what-you-eat-maybe-not.html Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:28:37 GMT If identical twins eat and exercise equally, must they have the same body weight" By analyzing the fundamental equations of body weight change, NIH researchers Carson Chow and Kevin Hall find that identical twins with identical lifestyles can have different body weights and different amounts of body fat........ ]]> http://www.weight-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/3-2008/weight-bias-is-as-prevalent.html http://www.weight-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/3-2008/weight-bias-is-as-prevalent.html Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:28:37 GMT New Haven, Conn.Discrimination against overweight peopleespecially womenis as common as racial discrimination, as per a research studyby the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University. These results show the need to treat weight discrimination as a legitimate form of prejudice, comparable to other characteristics like race or gender that already receive legal protection, said Rebecca Puhl, research scientist and lead author........ ]]> http://www.weight-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/3-2008/normal-weight-obesity-an-emerging-risk-factor.html http://www.weight-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/3-2008/normal-weight-obesity-an-emerging-risk-factor.html Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:28:37 GMT More than half of American adults considered to have normal body weight in America have high body fat percentages -- greater than 20 percent for men and 30 percent for women -- as well as heart and metabolic disturbances, new Mayo Clinic research shows. The finding conflicts with the widely held belief that maintaining a normal weight automatically guards against disorders such as high levels of circulating blood fats and a tendency to develop metabolic syndrome, which often leads to type 2 diabetes........ ]]> http://www.weight-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/3-2008/overweight-but-active.html http://www.weight-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/3-2008/overweight-but-active.html Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:28:37 GMT Overweight but active men responded dramatically better in comparison to their inactive counterparts in a first-of-its kind study from Indiana University that examined the vascular response to exercise in overweight men. Vascular function is important because of its relationship to cardiovascular disease........ ]]> http://www.weight-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/3-2008/eating-disorders-in-narcoleptics.html http://www.weight-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/3-2008/eating-disorders-in-narcoleptics.html Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:28:37 GMT The majority of patients with narcolepsy/cataplexy experience a number of symptoms of eating disorders, with an irresistible craving for food and binge eating as the most prominent features, according to a study published in the March 1 issue of the journal SLEEP. The study, authored by Hal Droogleever Fortuyn, MD, and Sebastiaan Overeem, MD, of the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center in The Netherlands, focused on 60 patients with narcolepsy/cataplexy who were recruited from specialized sleep centers and 120 healthy controls........ ]]> http://www.weight-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/3-2008/how-do-dietary-guides-match-up.html http://www.weight-watch-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/3-2008/how-do-dietary-guides-match-up.html Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:28:37 GMT Since advice about what to eat for optimal health has evolved over time with advances in nutrition science, dietary recommendations are sometimes seen as contradictory. However, a review of three leading dietary guides by scientists at the National Cancer Institute found their essential recommendations are consistent despite the different methodologies used to create the guides........ ]]>