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• Secreted Protein Sends Signal That Fat Is On The Way
  Posted on 3 Dec 2008 at 7:00am
  After you eat a burger and fries or other fat-filled meal, a protein produced by the liver may send a signal that fat is on the way, suggests a report in the December issue of the journal Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication. Researchers have found in mice that the liver produces a protein called adropin, which rises in response to high-fat foods and falls after fasting.
  
• Good, Bad And Ugly In Food Marketing Focus Of $6.4 Million Childhood Obesity ...
  Posted on 3 Dec 2008 at 6:00am
  The link between food marketing and the growing childhood obesity epidemic is the focus of a $6.4 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University. Principal investigators, Rudd Center Director Kelly D.
  
• Institute For Food, Nutrition And Health To Be Established At Rutgers Using $...
  Posted on 3 Dec 2008 at 6:00am
  Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, has received a four-year, $10 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to establish the Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health, on its George H. Cook Campus. Rutgers President Richard L. McCormick announced his intention to establish the new institute during his Annual Address to the University Community on Sept. 19.
  
• Curbing Hormones' Effects In Obese Patients Could Aid Against Breast Cancer
  Posted on 2 Dec 2008 at 8:00am
  Once-promising drugs that were abandoned in the fight against breast cancer still could be effective in obese patients, new research suggests. In laboratory tests, hormones produced by fat cells stimulate breast cancer cells to migrate and invade surrounding tissues, scientists at Emory University School of Medicine found. A class of drugs called epithelial growth factor receptor (EGFR) inhibitors could block the stimulatory effects of the hormones.
  
• Bariatric Surgery May Resolve Liver Disease
  Posted on 1 Dec 2008 at 6:00am
  Obesity is a growing epidemic in the U.S. with a significant increase in prevalence from 15 percent to 32.9 percent from 1980 to 2004. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is an emerging problem related to the obesity epidemic, becoming one of the most common causes of liver disease in the nation. Bariatric surgery has become a popular and effective method for rapid and permanent significant weight loss in morbidly obese individuals.