How Much Distress Weight Loss

Childhood obesity has emerged as an important public health problem in the United States and other countries in the world… (More)

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has become a major global health burden, leading to increased risk for cirrhosis… (More)

Obesity is a global pandemic characterized by high levels of body fat (adiposity) and derived-cytokines (i.e., leptin). Research… (More)

To develop a framework for the definition and classification of cancer cachexia a panel of experts participated in a formal… (More)

Overweight and obesity affects more than 66% of the adult population and is associated with a variety of chronic diseases. Weight… (More)

Two groups of beneficial bacteria are dominant in the human gut, the Bacteroidetes and the Firmicutes. Here we show that the… (More)

OBJECTIVE Some mothers have difficulty initiating lactation even when highly motivated to breastfeed. The purpose of this study… (More)

BACKGROUND Weight loss causes changes in appetite and energy expenditure that promote weight regain. Ghrelin is a hormone that… (More)

Adipocyte complement-related protein (30 kDa) (Acrp30), a secreted protein of unknown function, is exclusively expressed in… (More)

BACKGROUND Leptin, the product of the ob gene, is a hormone secreted by adipocytes. Animals with mutations in the ob gene are… (More)