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Lol, this is rich. "Ketogenic Diet Reverses Kidney Disease (Nephropathy)" OMG! This is incredible! Kidney failure is irreversible! But eating this strange high fat diet COMPLETELY CURED IT within 2 months for mice! Let's start testing the diet on people whose total lack of kidney function is a death sentence, right? Wrong- quote "a high fat diet could have other problems. We don't want to actually put people on the diet, we want to figure out how the diet works and make a drug that does the same thing", Lol. Yeah,  not like kids with epilepsy have been on ketogenic diets for years since the 1950's with no ill effects. Maybe someday someone will find evidence dietary fat causes heart disease, ha ha Ketogenic Diet Reverses Kidney Disease (Nephropathy) - YouTube : Ketogenic Diet Reverses Kidney Disease (Nephropathy) Charles Mobbs, a scientist at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, discovers how a low carb, ketogenic diet reverses k...

After weight-loss surgery, new gut bacteria keep obesity away | Reuters The logic behind weight-loss surgery seems simple: rearrange the digestive tract so the stomach can hold less food and the food bypasses part of the small intestine, allowing fewer of a meal's calories to be absorbed. Bye-bye, obesity. A study of lab mice, published on Wednesday, begs to differ. It concludes that one of the most common and effective forms of bariatric surgery, called Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, melts away pounds not - or not only - by re-routing the digestive tract, as long thought, but by changing the bacteria in the gut. Or, in non-scientific terms, the surgery somehow replaces fattening microbes with slimming ones. If that occurs in people, too, then the same bacteria-changing legerdemain achieved by gastric bypass might be accomplished without putting obese patients under the knife in an expensive and risky operation. [...] For many obese patients, particularly those with type 2 d...

Whole Milk Linked to Slimmer Kids - Neatorama The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that children switch from whole milk to a lower fat milk at age two. The conventional wisdom is that getting children used to reduced fat milk will help keep them at a healthy weight. Skim, 1%, or 2% milk has fewer calories per cup. It just makes sense, doesn't it? So here's where things gets confusing. A new study of preschool-aged children published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood, a sister publication of the British Medical Journal, finds that low-fat milk was associated with higher weight. That's right, kids drinking low-fat milk tended to be heavier.

Changes in the basal metabolic rate of a normal woman induced by short-term and long-term alterations of energy intake. [J Nutr Sci Vitaminol (Tokyo). 1989] - PubMed - NCBI Abstract A long-term experiment was carried out to study the effects of alterations in energy intake and meal contents on basal metabolic rate (BMR) of a normal woman. Alterations of energy intake induced changes in BMR and pulse rate in addition to body weight changes. Whether BMR was expressed per whole body, per unit body weight, or per unit body surface area, it increased progressively during long-term overeating periods, and decreased markedly during long-term undereating periods. These results suggest that there exists 'Luxuskonsumption', or adaptive diet-induced thermogenesis, during an overeating period and hypometabolism during an undereating period. BMR was affected significantly by the menstrual cycle but not by nutrient composition when daily energy intake was fixed at 2000 kcal for a long ti...

Discovery Lecture explores brain’s sensitivity to insulin | VUMC Reporter | Vanderbilt University Diabetes has a big impact on the brain. Patients with diabetes have more cognitive dysfunction, are at increased risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease, and have higher rates of depression and eating disorders. What’s going on is the brain is actually a metabolic organ, exquisitely sensitive to insulin, internationally known diabetes researcher C. Ronald Kahn, M.D., said during last week’s Flexner Discovery Lecture/Irwin Eskind Lecture in Biomedical Science at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. “Changing insulin signaling in the brain changes brain function in terms of things the brain normally does, which is mood and behavior activity,” said Kahn, the Mary K. Iaccoca Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Through studies of genetically manipulated “knock-out” mice lacking brain receptors for insulin, Kahn and his colleagues have shown that insulin signaling affects...