Pregnancy Weight Gain and Loss Affects Child

A news article about pregnancy weight affecting whether a child would be obese or not confirms my theory on what caused me to become someone who’d be easier to gain weight than lose some pounds.

According to the report, a study conducted by British and New Zealand researchers that there’s a better chance of a kid getting obese if his or her mother did not mind her weight during pregnancy.

Scientists at the University of Auckland’s Liggins centre say the way the foetus adapts to the environment in the womb can determine how it reacts to food later in life.

If the womb is low in nutrients, the foetus may predict food supplies will be low later in life and set its metabolism to store and conserve fat, the researchers led by Professor Peter Gluckman said in a statement Tuesday.

Take Workout Breaks for Better Weight Loss

Many thinks that exercising continuously will make their weight loss endeavor more successful. It’s as if breaking a sweat should never stop just to earn that head-turning figure. Now that notion is about to be dumped…

A Japanese research about two sets of people exercising – one having a continuous exercise with a rest period of 1 hour and one having two exercise bouts with a 20-minute rest between each bout, showed results that fat breakdown is greater for those who participated in the exercise with a break.

CD36 Protein: Solution to Weight Loss?

A research finding from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri on a protein called CD36, which show that it is found only in the proximal segment and not the distal segment of the intestine, is believed to be key information for future basis of weight loss treatments.

The research involved studying CD36 protein, a membrane protein identified in past studies to be found in cell surfaces of the lumen of the digestive tract, fat cells, heart and skeletal muscle tissue. This protein has been shown to be of importance in facilitating fatty acid absorption. However, past research involving normal mice versus genetically altered mice without CD36 protein showed no significant difference in intestinal fat absorption.