Everything you believe about how to lose weight is wrong. Weight gain and obesity are driven by hormones?in everyone?and only by understanding the effects of insulin and insulin resistance can we achieve lasting weight loss. In this highly readable and provocative book, Dr. Jaso…
In this highly readable and provocative book, Dr. Jason Fung sets out an original, robust theory of obesity that provides startling insights into proper nutrition. Flying in the face of the weight-loss recommendations that have failed in the past, this book reveals that obesity …
For over 50 years, Americans were led to believe that diets high in carbohydrates but low in dietary fat was healthy and normal. Now, over 34 million Americans are diagnosed with diabetes, 95% of that population having Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM). Insulin resistance is a kno…
Introducción: El síndrome metabólico (MetS) es un conjunto de trastornos que incluyen a la obesidad visceral o abdominal, la hipertensión arterial, la hipertrigliceridemia, el colesterol HDL bajo y la hiperglicemia. Ante la presencia de tres o más de los cinco criterios definido…
A number of challenges or perturbations in metabolic pathways lead to significant increases in plasma and tissue long-chain acylcarnitines (LCAC). The LCAC and other acylcarnitines rise, for instance, in the blood and muscle during exercise bouts, as tissue acyl-CoA pools change…
Whole yellow pea flour (WPF) and fractionated yellow pea flour (FPF) are novel functional food ingredients that vary in nutritional composition. Consequently, the health benefits of WPF and FPF remain undefined. The purpose of this research was to identify the effects of WPF and…
In recent years, studies have revealed a central role for the intestine in regulation of lipid homeostasis and development of insulin resistance and type-2 diabetes. The function of intestinal Scavenger Receptor Class-B type-I remains unknown, however it is believed to play a ro…
Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) refers to all the positional and geometric isomers of linoleic acid. The two most studied isomers are cis 9, trans 11-CLA and trans 10, cis 12-CLA. CLA supplements, often a mixture of the two isomers, have been popularly used for weight loss and ot…
Control of gene transcription is a powerful tool by which cells respond to their external environment. The dynamic nature of muscle tissue is controlled largely by gene expression changes, however the specific mechanisms by which these changes occur and lead to altered muscle si…
South Asians are people with origins in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, and the Maldives. In the United States (US), South Asians are among the fastest growing ethnic/immigrant groups with a growth rate of 70% from the 2000 to the 2010 Census, now consisti…
Amaç Çalışmamızdaki amaç, zebra balığında fazla beslenme ile oluşturulan tip 2 diyabet modelinde Stevia rebaudiana’nınolası etkisinin incelenmesidir. Gereç ve Yöntem Yetişkin zebra balıkları 15 gün boyunca fazla beslenmeye ve Stevia rebaudiana’nın düşük ve yüksek olmak üzere iki…
Amaç: Son yıllarda yapılan çalışmalar Myrtus Communis L. (MC) ekstraktının antioksidan ve antidiyabetik özelliklerini ortaya koymaktadır. Bu çalışmadaki hedefimiz bu ekstraktın yüksek yağlı diyet (YYD) ile beslenen sıçanların pankreası üzerinde etkilerini ortaya koyabilmektir. G…