Body Fatness and Cardiovascular Risk Factors

I recently revisited a really cool paper available in the Lancet in 2009 on body fatness, biomarkers, physical condition, and mortality (1). It's a meta-analysis to facilitate compiled body magnitude file (BMI) data from virtually 900,000 distinctive fill with, and interrelated it to circulating lipids and various physical condition outcomes.  This is solitary of the for the most part confident credentials on the topic.

Does the Mediterranean Diet Reduce Cardiovascular Risk?

By promptly, for the most part of you own probably heard around the contemporary study on the "Mediterranean diet" (1), a diet to facilitate was designed by diet-heart researchers and is based loosely on the traditional diet of Crete and selected other Mediterranean regions.  The admired press has been animatedly exposure this trial as long-awaited substantiation to facilitate the Mediterranean diet reduces the lay bare of cardiovascular events-- by a chock-full 30 percent larger than a 4.8-year time.  I inclination I can share their enthusiasm representing the study.

Atherosclerosis in Ancient Mummies Revisited

Many of you are already aware of the contemporary study to facilitate examined atherosclerosis in 137 ancient mummies from four discrete cultures (1).  Investigators used computed tomography (CT; a form of X-ray) to examine blood vessel calcification in mummies from ancient Egypt, Peru, Puebloans, and arctic Unangan hunter-gatherers. 

Neuronal Control of Appetite, Metabolism and Weight

Last week, I attended a Keystone league, "Neuronal Control of Appetite, Metabolism and Weight", in Banff.  Keystone conferences are small, listening carefully meetings to facilitate be apt to charm high spot quality science.  This detail league centered around my own specialist delve into interests, and it was incredibly informative.  This pole is a hasty of a quantity of of the for the most part salient points.

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