OK so your New Years resolution to lose weight has floundered and you’re not feeling too pleased with yourself. Well it could be timely to review the body mass index (BMI) classification for older adults as new research suggests that older overweight people are less likely to die over a 10 year period than their normal weight peers. [continue reading…]

People need to eat, like to eat and are programmed to eat. Australian neuroscientists took these truths to be self-evident before embarking on a radically new direction in weight loss research.

Current drug-based weight loss therapies try to stop the brain from sending hunger signals to the body. These therapies tend to be fairly ineffective, researchers reasoned, so why not reverse the approach and stop the body from receiving signals from the brain? So that’s what they did, and it worked. In mice at least. [continue reading…]

I thought I would stay with the “fat /dieting” theme (following my earlier post”Pouring on the Pounds”). Laboratory research has shown that indulging in a single bite of forbidden food can lead a dieter astray. But a recent study suggests that, in a real-life setting, one bite is actually just a temporary detour.
Source: We’re Only Human