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FrankenM&Ms! Forget Chocolate, I Want A Whole GMO Valentine's Day Meal

"GMO Inside" is demanding that America's largest candy sellers, Hershey's and Mars, put GMO warning labels on their Valentine's Day candy or remove these 'risky' ingredients completely. Wait, they make GMO chocolate now? No, of course not, thou ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 12 2025 - 3:53pm - 0 attachments

Brown Adipose Tissue Can Secrete Factors That Activate Fat And Carbohydrate Metabolism

... mere fat storage. From the nineties on, after discovering leptin as a hormonal factor released by WAT, other adipokines were found ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 28 2016 - 7:51am - 0 attachments

Molecular Atlas Of The Pancreas Produced

... the body’s energy balance and hunger through the hormone leptin. Although knowledge of what the body looks like and how it operates ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 27 2016 - 5:38am - 0 attachments

Sugar Addiction: Discovery Of A Brain Sugar Switch

... glia cells that react to hormones such as insulin or leptin; previously it was thought that this was only possible for neurons. ... were able to show that hormones such as insulin and leptin act specifically on 'support' glia cells to regulate sugar intake into ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 13 2016 - 9:37pm - 0 attachments

TREEs: Genetic Elements That Drive Regeneration Uncovered

... regeneration in the zebrafish. He found that a gene called leptin b was turned on in fish with amputated fins or injured hearts. Kang scoured the 150,000 base pairs of sequence surrounding leptin b and identified an enhancer element roughly 7,000 base pairs away from ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 6 2016 - 3:15pm - 0 attachments

Sleep Loss Boosts Hunger And Unhealthy Food Choices

... levels of the hormone ghrelin, which boosts appetite, and leptin, which signals fullness, in their blood. Previous studies have linked high ghrelin and low leptin levels to reduced sleep time and increased appetite. For the first ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 29 2016 - 7:06pm - 0 attachments

Does Sugar Have A Greater Impact On Coronary Heart Disease Than Saturated Fat?

... harm. Consuming these sugars can lead to resistance in leptin, which is a key hormone in the maintenance of normal body weight. The ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 13 2016 - 12:56pm - 0 attachments

Gene Therapy For Weight Loss Without Bone Loss

Delivering the hormone leptin directly to the brain through gene therapy can aid weight loss without ... bone density." In the study, rats who received leptin had a weight reduction of about 20 percent, but they did not have any ... Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense. Leptin is required for normal skeletal growth and maintenance. The hormone also ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 22 2015 - 1:26pm - 0 attachments

What Is Fat For?

... and this helps drive the metabolic illnesses. The hormones leptin and adiponectin, both made in the fat cells, play key roles in this process. Leptin, which gets secreted in greater quantities as the fat cells grow, acts ...

Article - Ignatius Brady - Oct 22 2015 - 8:55pm - 0 attachments

The Carbohydrate Hypothesis

... nutrient levels are rising. Insulin doesn't affect them. Leptin and adiponectin are secreted by fat cells to give feedback on whether we ...

Article - Ignatius Brady - Oct 22 2015 - 8:49pm - 0 attachments