obesity

Why breakfast is not the most important meal of the day: Another myth bites the dust!

There has been a widespread belief that eating breakfast is central to tackling overweight and obesity, one of our major medical and public health challenges....

Genetic determinants of thinness and obesity: cards of the same deck

Obesity is a major public health concern. While most genetic studies have focused on obesity, we opted to look at the contribution of genetic variation to...

Gut bacteria orchestrate the transmission of overweight from mother to babe

Using gene-sequencing methods to identify infant gut bacteria in a large and representative Canadian birth cohort, we investigated birth mode and infant gut...

Obesity: The heavyweight of cancer

While it is widely known that cigarettes can lead to lung cancer development, other factors may pose similar hazards with even more resonance. One of them is...

A new paradigm for metabolic health: reduced intake of dietary branched-chain amino acids

The less you eat, the more weight you lose...is this always the case? New insights on the metabolism of branched-chain amino acids might shift this paradigm...

The colour beige: heating up the fat