Obesity

Working out of home isn't a very active process. You sit at a desk all day long without relaxing your body. Standing desks are a great option if you want to stay active and alert during the work day. It may not seem like much, but standing and typing on your computer is a lot better for you than sitting in a chair all day. The best standing desks are adjustable, so you can convert into a sitting desk and vice-versa. That level of adjustability is nice, especially if you were working out your legs and need to give them a break.

The relationship between inflammation and obesity springs up from a cycle of events that include high blood pressure, high cholesterol level, and high blood sugar. This is where cannabis can help. Cannabis has grown considerably in the medical world as new uses of the natural herb are being researched and...

I’m going to tell you several facts that made me feel sick to my stomach. Obesity costs the United States $147 billion each year. Two-thirds of American adults are either overweight or obese. And during a global health crisis, some fast-food companies are making more money than ever before.

A new poll suggests the COVID-19 pandemic may have exacerbated the obesity epidemic in the United States. Prior to the pandemic, the prevalence of obesity in American adults was 42.4%, according to the CDC. The new survey of 545 adults with a BMI of at least 27 kg/m2 found that slightly more than half had gained some weight during the pandemic. Of those, almost three in four had gained 10 or more pounds, and half had gained 15 or more pounds.

King’s Fund warns that tackling inequality is vital to reverse increasing obesity in deprived areas – damaging life chances particularly for women and children

Children who eat slower are less likely to be extroverted and impulsive, according to a new study co-led by the University at Buffalo and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. The research, which sought to uncover the relationship between temperament and eating behaviors in early childhood, also found that kids who were highly responsive to external food cues (the urge to eat when food is seen, smelled or tasted) were more likely to experience frustration and discomfort and have difficulties self-soothing.

It’s always gratifying to hear that our guilty pleasures can have health benefits – like dark chocolate being good for your heart, or coffee preventing chronic liver disease, or wine keeping your teeth healthy – but what about milk chocolate?. Though it’s higher in fat, sugar and calories than dark...

Walmart announced plans to sell a cheaper version of analog insulin -- ReliOn NovoLog -- at a price tag of about $73 for a vial or $86 for a package of prefilled pens for patients without health insurance or those who can't afford it. (CNBC) Obesity was linked to an...

Scientists have identified a group of rare gene variants that help to protect people against obesity, following one of the most comprehensive studies to date of the genetics behind the condition. Researchers from the Regeneron Genetics Centre analysed genetic data from more than 640,000 people from Mexico, the US and...

The study noted that a quarter of them were still suffering from COVID-19 symptoms eight months after they were discharged. The long COVID-19 pandemic is common among hospitalized children, with a quarter of them still experiencing at least one symptom eight months after discharge, according to new research. The analysis...

A large team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions across the U.S. and several other countries, working with Regeneron Genetics Center, has isolated several gene variants that play a role in body weight control. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes how they isolated the variants and discuss the possibility of developing related therapies for obesity. Giles Yeo and Stephen O'Rahilly, with the University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories, have published a Perspective piece in the same journal issue outlining the work by the team.

International Journal of Obesity (2021)Cite this article. Although sarcopenic obesity is associated with a higher risk of cardiovascular events compared with obesity without sarcopenia, it is difficult to diagnose sarcopenia in daily clinical settings. Recently, a simple scoring system has been developed to identify sarcopenia patients based on three variables (age, hand grip strength, and calf circumference). However, the utility of this score for cardiovascular risk stratification in patients with abdominal obesity is unknown.

A team at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc's (NASDAQ: REGN) Genetics Center has discovered mutations in the gene GPR75 that protect against obesity. Now, drug developers at Regeneron will use its VelocImmune technology, which generates antibodies from humanized mice, to find drugs that can mimic the protective properties of the GPR75 variants.

The percentage of children and adolescents who are not just overweight but obese has more than tripled since the 1970s, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. By 2018, nearly one in five children between 2-19 were obese. Childhood obesity is defined as a BMI at or higher...

Artificial light generated indoors leaves children without enough Vitamin D and can disrupt sleep cycles. Children who do not spend enough time outside are at risk for vision problems, specifically myopia (near-sightedness). Exposure to green space leads to improvements in working memory and attention in children. Sam’s preschool friends were...

Subscribe to Fortune Daily to get essential business stories straight to your inbox each morning. With epidemic-level need and a market of more than 70 million Americans, what pharma company hasn’t dreamed of developing an effective obesity pill?. On Thursday, Regeneron, the $60 billion Tarrytown, N.Y., biotech, perhaps best known...

If your mother was obese while pregnant with you, then you’re more likely to develop non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) in your 20s, according to U.K. researchers who presented their findings at the International Liver Conference 2021, spearheaded by the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL 2021).

Several research groups have hunted for gene mutations that confer an increased risk of obesity in the hopes of finding new drug targets to curb the world’s expanding waistline. But scientists at Regeneron decided to take the opposite approach: They looked for genetic variants that keep people from gaining excessive amounts of weight—and they landed on one gene the company is now hoping to target with drugs.

July 1, 2021 -- Teenagers with obesity were more likely than their slimmer peers to have a heart attack, type 2 diabetes, or (self-reported) poor health when they were in their 30s and 40s, a new study says. Previous studies have reported worse health outcomes in older adults, but this...