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Nearly 42% of adults across the US have obesity, according to the most recent reporting from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And while size and poor health outcomes aren’t always connected, adults with obesity also have a much higher ri… Continue reading Losing weight and keeping it off involves more than willpower
Overweight and obesity have been associated with many health problems, including cancer. A new study has found a link between excess weight and the risk of developing gastrointestinal cancer.Continue ReadingCategory: Health & Wellbeing, LifestyleTa… Continue reading Weight gain across life stages linked to risk of gastrointestinal cancers
Virtual reality has come a long way in the past decade, with successful commercial offerings for gaming platforms still going strong as well as a number of semi-virtual, or augmented, …read more Continue reading Jump Like Mario With This Weighted Wearable
Caffeine is consumed worldwide in coffee, tea, and soft drinks, and its health benefits have been studied for years. Now, researchers have looked at the genes associated with caffeine metabolism to determine how the level of caffeine in the blood affec… Continue reading Higher blood caffeine levels may reduce weight, risk of type 2 diabetes
From feeding cancer cells to triggering depression, there are a host of reasons why a high-fat diet isn’t optimal for human health. Now, researchers at the Penn State College of Medicine have added another discovery to the long list of adverse effects … Continue reading Rat brains lose the ability to regulate calories after a high-fat diet
[Curious Scientist] tried building an integrated strain gauge on a PCB, but ran into problems. Mainly, the low resistance of the traces didn’t show enough change under strain to measure …read more Continue reading PCB Gets Weighty Assignment
For the first time in more than 30 years, new terms have been officially added to the International System of Units (SI). The four new prefixes – ronna, quetta, ronto and quecto – describe very large and very small numbers that until now didn’t have th… Continue reading Quettabytes and ronnagrams: Extreme numbers get new official names
Squeezing in a solid workout can be a challenge for time-poor fitness enthusiasts, but lately we’re seeing exercise scientists really drill into what the most efficient workouts might look like. A team at Australia’s Edith Cowan University (ECU) has of… Continue reading Do you even lift? Lowering weights may be faster route to muscle growth
Following successful trials in adults and subsequent FDA approval last year, an emerging obesity drug has now shown promise in overweight adolescents. The treatment was shown to induce similar weight loss effects in this younger cohort, while also impr… Continue reading Repurposed diabetes drug drives weight loss in obese adolescents
Research continues to demonstrate how the health benefits of weight training go far beyond cultivating the ideal beach body. The latest study to shed light on this topic explores the links between muscle-strengthening activities and risk of death, and … Continue reading One hour of weekly weight training could cut risk of death by 20%