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Pomegranate oil-seaweed mix may improve liver health and waist size

A blend of pomegranate oil and brown seaweed extract may produce weight loss of about five kilos, as well as improvements in liver health, says new study.

The new ingredient, marketed under the brand name Xanthigen, noted improvements in women with healthy livers and those suffering from non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), according to findings of a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled study with obese prem...

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First lady to take on kids' obesity

Better eating habits, improved nutrition and a more physically fit America do not have to come with a high price tag and all are imperative to this country's economy, its future productivity and the well-being of the next generation of children. That was the message first lady Michelle Obama delivered Wednesday afternoon to the U.S. Conference of Mayors at the Capital Hilton.

For more than 20 minutes, Obama highlighted the stark stat...

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Asia proving growing market in weight control sector

As levels of obesity continue to rise on a global scale, Nutraingredients looks at the market for weight management dietary supplements, food and beverage products.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates, by 2015, there will be more than 1.5 billion overweight consumers, incurring health costs beyond $117 billion per year in the US alone. Moreover, a recent study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine reporte...

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Science: Slimming ingredients beyond satiety

In the third part of our series on weight management, NutraIngredients looks at how nutritional approaches may boost body-shaping, and how our gut microflora may be the future of weight management.

Having already looked at ingredients scientifically-supported to enhance satiety or boost energy use, we will also look at the controversies surrounding the dairy-weight management link, and how antioxidant plant extracts may help us bea...

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Fenugreek extract may boost satiety, aid weight management

A galactomannan-rich extract from fenugreek may increase feelings of fullness and help reduce subsequent food intakes, says a new study from Frutarom and the University of Minnesota.

Addition of eight grams of a viscous fiber powder from fenugreek to a normal breakfast resulted in significantly a higher feeling of fullness, according to findings published in the journal Phytotherapy Research.

“The effects on appetite suppressio...

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Healthful-living experts share their New Year's resolutions

When I turned to health and nutrition experts I'd interviewed in the past year for inspiration in formulating my own New Year's resolutions, my cup runneth over. So many responded to my request for ideas for eating more healthfully in the coming year that we decided to devote two editions of this column to sharing them with you. Here's the second. (If you missed last week's column, read it here.)

 

Linda Bacon, nutrition p...

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$2m weight loss ruling sends warning to bogus claim makers

The recent federal district court ruling that has ordered a company to pay $2m to the Federal Trade Commisssion (FTC) for making misleading weight loss claims, will act as “road map” in the sector, according to a veteran claims attorney.

The Connecticut district court judge ruled Bronson Partners and its officer, Martin Howard, had made “obvious and widespread” claims breaches about its products and must assist the FTC id...

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BiolActis files patent on ‘major new discovery’ to fight obesity

Canadian biologics company Technologie Biolactis has filed a patent covering what it describes as ‘a major new discovery’ in the modulation of an obesity-related metabolic pathway.

The firm’s bioactive ingredients, called Malleable Protein Matrix (MPM), are able to modulate specific nuclear receptors, peroxisome proliferator activated receptors (PPARs), and a biological pathway associated to obesity.

Glucose metabol...

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Surprising Causes of Weight Gain

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Cancer and Obesity

Evidence for a link between cancer and obesity and overweight:

Considerable evidence suggests that obesity and overweight play an important role in cancer. Obesity and overweight have been clearly associated with increased risks for kidney cancer in both men and women (two-fold increased relative risk), and in women, endometrial cancer (one and a half-fold relative risk) and postmenopausal breast cancer (two-fold relative risk). Building ev...