After you eat a burger and fries or other fat-filled meal, a protein produced by the liver may send a signal that fat is on the way, suggests a new report.

2 Dec 2008

After you eat a burger and fries or other fat-filled meal, a protein produced by the liver may send a signal that fat is on the way, suggests a report in the December issue of the journal Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication.

2 Dec 2008

BAKER CITY (AP) — It’s fat city in the countryside of Eastern Oregon’s Baker County.

2 Dec 2008

A new study suggests older adults with symptoms of depression are more likely to gain abdominal fat, but not overall fat, over a five-year period. About 10 percent to 15 percent of older adults have symptoms of depression. “Depression has been associated with the onset of diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cardiac mortality [death],” the authors [...]

2 Dec 2008

Older people who are depressed are much more likely to develop a dangerous type of internal body fat – the kind that can lead to diabetes and heart disease – than people who are not depressed, according to a new study co-led by an N.C. researcher. The connection goes beyond obesity and suggests some biological link between a person's mental state and fat that collects around the internal organs, ...

2 Dec 2008

(Associated Press) Older people who are depressed are much more likely to develop a dangerous type of internal body fat – the kind that can lead to diabetes and heart disease – than people who are not depressed, according to a new study co-led by an N.C. researcher. The connection goes beyond obesity and suggests some biological link between a person's mental state and fat that collects around ...

2 Dec 2008