A new 'functional' cooking oil made from a blend of tropical,
olive, coconut and flaxseed oils, may soon offer relief to
calorie-counters and cholesterol-watchers, according to Canadian
researchers.
Dutch firm Loders Croklaan Lipid Nutrition says a study on its
Clarinol conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) found that it improves
weight reduction and decreases the negative effects normally seen
in people on low-calorie diets.
Body weight is directly associated with mortality from cancer, US
researchers report, suggesting that overweight and obesity could
account for up to 20 per cent of all deaths from cancer in American
women.
A recent conference on chromium picolinate highlighted the evidence
backing the use of chromium in glucose control for people with type
2 diabetes and insulin resistance, suggests chromium maker
Nutrition 21.
Da Vinci Gourmet, maker of flavored syrups for specialty coffee and
tea drinks and sodas, is introducing a sugar-free, low carbohydrate
chocolate sauce.
Americans may not be consuming enough of the mineral chromium, an
essential mineral thought to enhance insulin sensitivity, according
to research presented by chromium producer Nutrition 21.
Girls who consume more calcium tend to weigh less and have lower
body fat than those with low calcium consumption, suggest new
findings presented last week.
A derivative of the green tea leaf may help reduce risk factors for
heart disease, including bad cholesterol and high blood pressure,
researchers will report at an Experimental Biology meeting next
week.
Researchers have expressed the need for long-term studies on the
effects of low-carbohydrate diets, especially to assess the impact
of the diet on people over 50 years old. In a special obesity issue
of JAMA a team from Stanford University...
With cancer rates expected to rise 50 per cent to 15 million by
2020, a WHO report suggests that if governments act now, there are
several ways to reduce these rates - especially through diet.
Calls for urgent action to treat obesity are again in the
headlines, following a new assessment that up to 1.7 billion people
worldwide could be overweight or obese.
The food industry has voiced its objections to the recently
published draft WHO report on diet and nutrition and the prevention
of diseases. One group claims there is an misleading emphasis on
sugar.
A new report from the World Health Organization lays the blame for
the current obesity problem on our diet and suggests that the food
industry should step up to the challenge to make food healthier.
Elderly men and women with normal body weight still may be at risk
for developing type 2 diabetes if they have large amounts of muscle
fat or visceral abdominal fat, according to new study, which
questions the relationship between...
Eating 100 fewer calories a day could help prevent weight gain in
the average individual, says one team of researchers in this week's
Science, while others argue that fighting the epidemic is
much more difficult : a fight against...
Despite the widely held belief that adolescents who come from
higher-income families tend to be less obese than comparable
children from families with less income, a new study suggests that
this may not be uniformly true for both...
As consumerism continues on its upward curve, new figures released
this week show that obesity and diabetes epidemics continued to
escalate in 2001. In just over ten years, obesity has increased by
more that 70 per cent in the US.
An organisation supporting ephedra manufacturers yesterday released
a report containing more than 55 clinical studies backing the
herb's safety and weight loss benefits - the report found no
significant adverse effects were caused...
Supplement company Basic Research, which makes the PediaLean weight
loss formula for children and runs a supporting website, said this
week it is considering legal options to counter the 'outrageous'
claims made by controversial...
Nutrition technology company PacificHealth Laboratories said it has
completed two double blind trials on an improved version of its
Satietrol appetite control technology.
Nearly one in five American workers is grossly obese, smokes,
drinks heavily and never exercises, yet believes he or she is in
excellent health, according to a national survey released last week
by Oxford Health Plans.
A new study on the controversial weight-loss supplement ephedra
contradicts previous allegations that the herb can have dangerous
effects on cardiac health. The study comes at a time when several
states are trying to ban products...
Scientists from the US Department of Agriculture's Agricultural
Research Service (ARS) are probing the role that the protein leptin
plays in regulating appetite and weight gain, in a bid to stem the
worrying rise in obesity among...
New research suggests that losing even modest amounts of weight can
pay off in better health. Researchers at the University of North
Carolina report in Obesity Research this month that losing
weight decreases activity of a key enzyme...
Study results presented this weekend at the American Dietetic
Association's annual meeting showed that patients with type 2
diabetes who used calcium-rich meal replacements in conjunction
with a prescription appetite suppressant...
The Ephedra Education Council (EEC) has responded to yesterday's
news that as many as one third of the US population now suffers
from obesity with a statement promoting the safety and efficacy of
the dietary supplement ephedra.
The weight-loss services provider Weight Watchers International is
suing Florida-based supplement company USA Prescriptions for
placing unauthorised pop-up ads for diet drugs on the
WeightWatchers website.
Obesity continued to increase dramatically during the late 1990s
forAmericans of all ages, with nearly one-third of all adults now
classified asobese, according to new data from the 1999-2000
National Health and Nutrition Examination...
Childhood obesity rates have reached staggering levels and obesity
has nearly surpassed smoking as the leading cause of preventable
death among Americans, according to a new Datamonitor report.
The forthcoming World Heart Day has prompted leading experts to
comment in an editorial that rising cardiovascular disease, the
leading cause of death worldwide, has become a pandemic which
urgently needs to be addressed.
A study has found that compliance with the Dietary Guidelines
established in 1980 advising Americans on nutrition to promote
health may reduce the overall risk for cancer.
European obesity experts, meeting to discuss the growing problem at
a summit in Copenhagen, have warned that obesity will overtake
smoking as Britain's top preventable killer. They have also accused
the government of being too...
A new report by the American Obesity Association which claims that
54 per cent of US military personnel are overweight and a further
6.2 per cent are obese has prompted the Ephedra Education Council
there to offer to educate the military...
A substance derived from dogfish sharks suppresses appetite and
decreases body weight in rodents making it a potential anti-obesity
treatment, according to new research.
Nutrition 21, the US producer of chromium picolinate products, has
announced that it will provide data to the US Institute of Medicine
(IOM) to help it assess the safety of the product.
More research published in the lastest issue of the American
Journal of Clinical Nutrition finds further cause to promote
wholegrains. The food protects against cardiovascular disease ,
type 2 diabetes, and certain cancers thanks...
Across the Western world, obesity continues to affect more and more
people. One of the solutions is a fat tax on high-fat foods, which
although unpopular, demonstrates the extent of the problem,
Professor Andreu Palou, a member of...
An extract from the ginseng berry could prove to be an effective
treatment for diabetes and obesity, according to researchers from
the University of Chicago.
A new dietary supplement designed specifically for children has
been launched in the US. PediaLean from Klein-Becker is said to
help children lose weight, even without a calorie-controlled diet.
A new weight loss supplement which is being marketed as an
alternative to allegedly dangerous herbs such as ephedra and ma
huang has been launched in the US state of Florida.
Researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center have identified
a protein that enables the body to overcome resistance to the
hormone leptin - the findings could help scientists move one step
closer to creating a drug therapy...
Next Pharmaceuticals has launched Relora, an ingredient derived
from natural plant extracts, which it claims is a safe and
effective alternative to kava.
Joshua Tree, the former construction company which recently
completed the acquisition of American Health & Diet Centers
(AHDC), has released three new weight loss products designed to
meet demand for dieting products in the summer...
Consumer advocacy group Public Citizen on Tuesday asked US
regulators to ban Abbott Laboratories' diet drug Meridia, linking
the anti-obesity medicine to several deaths in the United States
and Europe.
