Skinny genes – how GM food may help you stave off obesity | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Skinny genes – how GM food may help you stave off obesity | Environment | guardian.co.uk: Fond of a full English breakfast? Perhaps you should have a glass of blood orange juice on the side – it might help to reduce the harm from all the fat you are ingesting, and make you less likely to become obese.
But as blood oranges are among the least favoured fruits for consumers, scientists in the UK are hoping to find ways to genetically modify standard oranges to incorporate the beneficial effects of their less popular cousins.

Walking May Lessen the Influence of Genes on Obesity by Half - MarketWatch

Walking May Lessen the Influence of Genes on Obesity by Half - MarketWatch: Watching too much TV can worsen your genetic tendency towards obesity, but you can cut the effect in half by walking briskly for an hour a day, researchers report at the American Heart Association's Epidemiology and Prevention/Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism 2012 Scientific Sessions.

New Study on Diet-induced Obesity Expands Omega-3 Health Benefits

New Study on Diet-induced Obesity Expands Omega-3 Health Benefits: A new study by The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA and Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen, Norway, suggests that consuming sufficient amount of EPA and DHA Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids prevents the fat producing effects of the excessive Omega-6, the other polyunsaturated fatty acids abundantly found in red meat. Nutri-Med Logic Corp adds, while this study investigated the benefits of Omega-3 in preventing diet-induced obesity, another very recent study found that consumption of Omega-3 also resulted in short-term weight loss in obesity.

Teaching fat cells to burn calories

Teaching fat cells to burn calories: While investigating how a common drug given to people with diabetes works in mice, a UCSF team discovered that a protein called PRDM16, found in both men and mice, can throw a switch on fat cells, converting them from ordinary calorie-storing white fat cells into calorie-burning brown fat cells.