A new Australian study has said if one wants to predict whether a baby is going to have a weight problem in the future, they must look at their dad.
The Australian study looked at the weights of eight- and nine-year-old children from two-parent families where one parent was obese.
The findings go against popularly held beliefs that […]

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A new study at the University of Melbourne has found An increase in body weight during a man’s adult life is associated with an increased risk of suffering an aggressive form of prostate cancer and of dying from it.
The study also found that having a high body mass throughout life was also associated with increased risk […]

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New research from Uppsala University, Sweden, shows that a specific brain region that contributes to a person’s appetite sensation is more activated in response to food images after one night of sleep loss than after one night of normal sleep.
 Poor sleep habits can therefore affect people’s risk of becoming overweight in the long run. The […]

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Body size and composition measures were not significantly associated with low-grade (Gleason 6) prostate cancer. In contrast, body mas index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), fat mass (FM), and fat-free mass (FFM), were each significantly associated with an increased risk of Gleason 7 and Gleason 8-10 prostate cancer.
A recent study suggests that associations between BMI and WC […]

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A new study at University of Adelaide, Australia has revealed unhealthy diet of overweight fathers may cause certain changes in sperms.
The findings suggested that epigenetic changes are prevalent in certain regions of sperm cells, which may lead to metabolic disorders in their children and make them more vulnerable to obesity
Researchers identified 21 of changes that were expressed differently in […]

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Australian researchers at the University of Adelaide, have found that the sperm of overweight fathers appears to carry a molecular signal that causes their offspring to inherit obesity. This may be more severe in female children and males they add.
This is the first evidence that a father’s nutrition can affect the epigenome of his sperm, […]

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Children whose fathers are overweight are more likely to have weight troubles when they are older than other children of their age.

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Doctors say men can experience their own version of hormonal change which some are calling “man-opause” or more accurately Andropause. The symptoms sound familiar: fatigue, mood swings, bone loss, but the conditions is not menopause. In fact, the ailments have nothing to do with being a woman.
According to medical experts, obese men are at a […]

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According to a new study at Maastricht University in The Netherlands, taking a relatively small dose of resveratrol in purified form daily for a month was found to improve metabolisms obese men. In fact, the effects appear to be as good for us as severe calorie restriction.
The study data showed that, like calorie restriction, resveratrol supplements lower […]

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A multi-disciplinary team of researchers from the University of Sydney has shown that people on a 10 percent protein diet will eat more snacks between meals and consume significantly more calories in total compared with people on a 15 percent protein diet.
The results, published in the online journal PLOS ONE, represent the first scientifically supported […]

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