Binge Eating : The Pleasure and Pain News

In a new research, a team of scientists has found that animals that sleep longer store energy for a long duration, a finding that can be useful in the treatment of obesity.

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An international study has found that a variation in a gene that is active in the central nervous system is linked to higher risk for obesity.

The new study, conducted by Robert ... Read more

Underweight and extremely obese people die earlier than those having normal weight, results of an international study conducted by Canadian and American researchers have revealed.

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Obesity during early adulthood raises the chances that a person will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, according to a study released Tuesday.

"This is the first study to explo... Read more

Obesity is probably the most important factor in the development of insulin resistance, but science's understanding of the chain of events is still spotty. Now, researchers at the Salk Insti... Read more

A new study claims that obesity reduces volume of gray matter in the brains of postmenopausal women.

"A subset of women from the Pittsburgh Healthy Women Study (HWS) who had been... Read more

Living in an area with more fast food outlets and convenience stores than supermarkets and grocers has been associated with obesity in a Canadian study. Researchers writing in the open acces... Read more

Two scientists whose work challenges the assumption that obesity is caused by a lack of willpower were on Tuesday announced as the winners of the Shaw Prize, known as the Nobel Prize of the ... Read more

Two studies have found that diet foods and snack bans could trigger binge eating among children.

The first study by Dr Jeff Brunstrom and colleagues at Bristol University tested 18 v... Read more

A research team including an Indian origin scientist has found that blocking a muscle growth-limiting hormone can protect against obesity and atherosclerosis.

The study showed... Read more