Sugar, aspartame (Equal), sucralose (Splenda) and glycyrrhizin (licorice root) are all significantly associated with a higher ...

Syndromic obesity is associated with genetic conditions like Bardet-Biedle syndrome (BBS) and Alstrom syndrome. How Environmental Factors Influence Obesity For most people, obesity is not entirely ...

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Why it's difficult for genetically obese people to permanently lose weight and your DNA creates biological barriers that make ...

Genes are responsible for 40%-70% of human obesity – the rest is related to life experience. We extracted DNA from samples of saliva sent in by interested pet owners.

Now new research at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) suggests obesity may also be linked to some genetic mutations that drive specific subtypes of cancer. “Our results show that obesity ...

Motion sickness is a very common condition that affects about 1 in 3 people, but the brain circuits involved are largely unknown. In the current study published in Nature Metabolism, researchers at ...

Rethinking the way we define obesity could help millions of people worldwide, argue a team of researchers who want to introduce a new category of “preclinical” obesity.

With new treatments that cost upwards of $1,000 per person per month, along with supply shortages, how to define obesity is more than just a fight over nomenclature.