Are Soft Drink Calories A Problem?
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An editorial article out in the New England Journal of medicine has raised some interesting revisits to the questions concerning beverage selection and risk…
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What Are The Immunological Implications of Excess Body Mass?
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A provocative article published in Nature Immunology[1] identifies the abject failure of public health’s policy of targeting diet and lifestyle changes in the reversal…
Leaky Gut Induces Visceral Obesity
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From its dark days as a concept dismissed by most Drs and scientists as being suitable only for the more eccentric alternative medicine crowd,…
Is There Something in the Environment Making us all Fatter?
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I have previously written about the evolving spread of obesity and the consequences to human health due to the expansion of adipose tissues –…
Fat – I’m Not To Blame Its My Bugs!
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A trial to see if the ingestion of a probiotic bacterium enriched drink might have a beneficial impact on central obesity was funded by…
Multi Vitamin/Mineral Supplement Promotes Weight Loss in Women
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Multi Vitamins are considered by many to be little more than colourful contributors to urine flow that reflect a gullible individuals need to add…
Apples and Nuts Reduce Inflammation Via Mucosal Immune System
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In the context of the ever increasing relationship between inflammation and diseases of our western lifestyle the idea that the old adage of ‘an…
Gut Immune Defect Links Bacteria and Metabolic Syndrome
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The connection between gut bacteria and obesity has gained some weight, with new findings demonstrating links in mice among immune-system malfunction, bacterial imbalance and…
Obesity, Probiotics and Pregnancy
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There are numerous reasons to lose weight but scientists continue to explore complex connections between weight and health risks. A new study in the…
New Data Analysis Shows Possible Link between Childhood Obesity and Allergies
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A new study indicates there may be yet another reason to reduce childhood obesity — it may help prevent allergies. The study published in…