Posts Tagged ‘homeostasis’

The remarkable advances of the last few years in understanding and responding to obesity all comes from insight into a place in your brain that’s about the size of an almond. It is your hypothalamus. In Nature last week, researchers from Cambridge and the Max Planck Institute published a detailed map of the human hypothalamus. […]

Exercise for weight loss is a durable concept. Some advocates even push for food labels to describe the exercise necessary to burn calories in a food serving. But the premise for this is false. A new study in Current Biology explains the problem better than ever before. It turns out that when a person does […]

Yesterday, Michael Schwartz delivered this year’s Blackburn Lecture in Obesity Medicine. The lecture series honors both the memory of George Blackburn and individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to the science of obesity. Schwartz painted a remarkably clear picture of some complex neuroscience. Evidence is accumulating to describe the brain’s control center for diabetes and […]