15-06-23 The gut microbe Akkermansia muciniphila may hold the key to better metabolic health and healthier body fat distribution in people who are overweight or obese, reveals a small study published online in the journal Gut. The microbe seems to be linked...

14-07-05 For hibernating mammals, the pre-winter months are a race against time to accumulate enough energy reserves to last until spring. Offspring born late in the year have much less time to achieve this. Austrian scientists have discovered that power-nap...

12-08-25 最新一项研究显示，肥胖会加速人的认知能力衰退，从而增加患痴呆症的风险。 Being overweight is not just bad for waistlines but for brains too, say researchers who have linked obesity to declining mental performance. Experts are not sure why this might b...

11-08-15 Analyses of the metabolic profile of blood serum（血清） have revealed significant differences in metabolites between men and women. In a study to be published on August 11 in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics, scientists at the Helmholtz Zentru...

10-11-30 With the emergence of an epidemic of obesity and type 2 diabetes (DM) throughout the world, the association of lifestyle habits that may affect the risk of metabolic diseases（代谢性疾病） is especially important. Most prospective studies have shown...

10-11-16 UC Irvine researchers have discovered that circadian rhythms（生物周期） the internal body clock regulate fat metabolism. This helps explain why people burn fat more efficiently at certain times of day and could lead to new pharmaceuticals（药物） f...

09-12-06 Case Western Reserve University researchers, from the School of Medicine's Department of Nutrition, discovered two new metabolic pathways代谢途径 by which products of lipid peroxidation脂质过氧化作用 and some drugs of abuse, known as 4- hydroxyacids...