According to a recent study published in the Fertility magazine, excessive weight may considerably increase the risks of miscarriages in pregnant women.

Dr. Rachael Weiss of California Fertility Center describes the obesity as the pandemic of the twenty first century. While obesity spreads among women of reproductive age, so does the problem of miscarriages.

The researchers have carried out a thorough study of the medical publications in specialized reviews that were published during the recent twenty years to see if there were any other researches that connected excessive weight with miscarriages and compared the course of pregnancy in normal-weight women to the one in women with excessive weight. Most of the studies concluded the miscarriage was more frequent in obese women at the term less than 20 weeks. Read more »

The laboratory rats may help humans find a new way to control weight problems!

One of the recent studies has found a way to ward off hunger. Olive oil contains a certain fatty acid and other monounsaturated fats that do no harm to a human’s heart. These substances can help you fight off hunger.

The researchers suggest these results may help develop new medicine to control and enhance appetite.

Doctor Caroline Pullhemus is a leading pharmacologist at the Californian University. Dr. Pullhemus used the lab rats to test the effect of the oleic acid on the rodents’ stomachs. Once the fat was introduced into the animals’ intestinal system, it was soon turned into a fat messenger oleoylethanolamide.

Once introduced into the digestive system, the oleoylethanolamide activates specific receptors that consequently tell the brain that the body is full and the person no longer feels hungry. As a result, the person starts feeling full a lot sooner and eats a lot less at a time.

Pullhemus introduced the fat into the animals’ intestines surgically, and observed that the rats ate significantly less afterwards. Read more »