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Lifestyle modification achieves clinically meaningful weight loss. While previous research only discovered mean weight change, this study found a substantial fraction of subjects undergoing lifestyle modification achieved categorical, and therefore clinically meaningful, weight loss.

Tap into lipids! Introducing the Lipidomics Gateway, a new resource for researchers interested in lipids. Explore the properties and roles of lipids across biology, and discover powerful new techniques for their production and study. All for free!

Weight gain passed onto same sex children. Study finds obesity acquired by a son from a father, or by daughter from mother, is more likely to be caused by environmental factors the child is exposed to than by inheritable genetic traits. Read the article or the BBC report for more.

Updated Metabolic Syndrome Web Focus. Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of conditions that occur together and increase the risk for heart disease, stroke and diabetes affecting nearly 50 million Americans. Read the most recent articles providing valuable insight into this emerging medical and public health epidemic.this article is FREE

Frontier's in fighting obesity. Combined amylin/anorectic therapies could tame obesity's growing threat. Read papers from the 9th and 10th Annual International Symposia in Obesity featuring GHSR gene therapy, mechanics of bariatric surgery and how pre-adulthood prevention may prove crucial to defeating obesity.

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