weight loss studies

The symptoms and complications of many diseases can be improved by losing weight, and kidney disease is the latest addition to that list.

A study published in the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology, found that losing weight through diet and exercise had a positive impact.

If Johnnie Cochran were alive today, he may have put it this way, "Weight loss in a hurry? Better eat your curry!"

A Tufts University study has found that curcumin, a polyphenol found in turmeric, has shown promise as a weight loss aid...in mice.

And comedian Kevin James does too. Saying, "Everybody thinks they got the secret. 'You know what you got to do. You got to chew sugar-less gum. That's your problem right there.' Yeah, because my ass got fat from Bazooka!"

But new research begs to differ, claiming that chewing gum actually works.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. I have become generally desensitized to "breakthroughs" in weight loss methods. One possibility that seems to consistently manifest itself amongst the other noise has been the research on brown fat (brown adipose tissue, or BAT). It has been enough to make me pay closer attention - here's why.

In short, a recent study is showing that spending time in the cold can favorably alter our metabolic capabilities by increasing BAT.

If you've taken your dieting advice from pop diet book authors in recent years, you'd think that calories are not important or at least of secondary importance when it comes to battling the bulge. The largest dietary trial of its kind - published in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that calories matter - no matter how you split them.