Archive for March, 2008
Monday, March 31st, 2008
Restricting salt during pregnancy may increase the risk of obesity of female offspring once adults. The offspring of rats fed a restricted salt diet had greater obesity indices than those fed a normal salt diet.
The low salt rats had increased retroperitoneal fat mass, higher leptin levels in males and lower leptin levels in females, increased plasma renin ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
Supplementing with vitamin D can increase the rate of weight loss during dieting. Those with high blood levels of vitamin D achieved triple the weight loss of those with low levels of the vitamin.
The groups received either a high vegetable diet or a high cereal grain diet. Both groups lost ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
A large Czech study found that thyroid and adrenal hormones are associated with body fat levels and BMI. A weak association was found between body composition, fat distribution and the hormones of the hypothalamus-pituitary-thyroid-adrenal axis (HPTA).
Higher thyroid hormone levels were associated with improved fat distribution and lower BMI in women. ...
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