Sixty-six % of American adults are considered to be overweight or obese. Much research is currently being conducted to learn about the different types of adiposity, the biochemical processes of adipocytes, or fat cells, the hormones secreted by these cells, health risks associated with obesity, and its contributing factors. The report below will outline how to classify obesity, the hormones sec...

objective: nowadays the value of bioelectrical impedance analysis (bia) in the estimation of body adiposity both on a clinical basis in the individual and epidemiologically in large populations is of great interest. the current study determine accuracy of bia compared with body mass index (bmi) measurement for estimating body composition in a group of normal weight employee women with a sedenta...

this study was conducted to investigate the effects of l-carnitine and different levels of animal fat on performance, carcass characteristics and some blood parameters of broiler chickens. two hundred one-day old male broiler chicks were allotted to5 treatments in 4 replicates and 10 birds in each replicate. dietary treatments consisted of: 1) diet with 5% vegetable oil (t1), 2) diet with 5% ve...

Numerous analyses on the chemical composition of various insects have shown that, as in mammals, fat and glycogen constitute the principal food reserves. Among holometabolic insects the accumulation of these two substances during the larval instars is, to a varying extent, utilized during the process of pupation. Most of the data on the chemical changes during metamorphosis are summarized by Ne...

Nonalcoholic fatty liver (NAFL) is a common liver disease, associated with insulin resistance. Betaine has been tested as a treatment for NAFL in animal models and in small clinical trials, with mixed results. The present study aims to determine whether betaine treatment would prevent or treat NAFL in mice and to understand how betaine reverses hepatic insulin resistance. Male mice were fed a m...

BACKGROUND Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (LAGB) requires surgical access to the gastroesophageal junction, which may be compromised by the enlarged, fatty liver that is frequently encountered in the obese. Liver size appears reduced and surgical access improved following preoperative weight loss with Optifast Very Low Calorie Diet (VLCD). The aim of this study was to assess the effect...

the aim of this study was to determine physicochemical, microbial properties and antioxidant activityof fermented camel milk (chal) and introduce it as a functional food. the protein content of thesamples was determined using kjeldahl method and total dry matter using oven drying method. theamount of fat content with gerber method and ph was measured using a ph meter. antioxidantactivity was al...