Health claims on packaging for many foods marketed to UK kids are ‘confusing’

The health claims made on the product packaging for a large proportion of foods marketed to children in the UK are ‘confusing,’ and could be contributing to rising rates of childhood obesity.

Paving the way for a fructose tolerance test – new study finds that the hormone FGF21 is stimulated by fructose ingestion

Increased consumption of table sugar and high-fructose corn syrup has been linked to rising rates of obesity and type 2 diabetes in the United States and throughout the world.

Obesity Epidemic Linked To Brain Mechanisms

America’s rising rates of obesity in virtually all age groups is partly due to biological factors, researchers from the Cincinnati Diabetes and Obesity Center reported in the journal Cell Metabolism.