Shaq’s Big Challenge Against Childhood Obesity

Shaq Weight Loss Reality Show Another reality show, having no less than Shaq O’Neal as the motivator-in-chief, is targeting obesity. This time, it’s childhood obesity that’s being attacked by the “Shaq Attack”. The show is called “Shaq’s Big Challenge”, which airs every Tuesday (9:00-10:00 p.m., ET) on ABC.

It seems like it’s no longer just the NBA team that Shaq is caring for nowadays, he’s also now all out for the children. He even created a TV series out of his concern for child obesity.

This big guy who’s won four times as an NBA champion confided that he’s seen the amazing statistics on childhood obesity and got inspired to do his part on making physical fitness more popular than junk food and inactiveness which are taking their toll not only on adults but unfortunately on kids, too, who are more prone to the feeling of being an outsider and other emotional effects that obesity brings.

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Alli Now an Anti-Cancer?

Orlistat, the generic name of Xenical and Alli , has been reportedly discovered to be able to kill cancer cells through binding with a protein called fatty acid synthase in tumor cells. This causes it stop functioning and the tumor cell eventually dies.

This protein is found in tumor cells that attack the brain, breast, colon, liver, lung and prostate.

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07-10-2007

Pills and Gears

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The Real Deal with Weight Loss Patches

Do Weight Loss Patches Make You Slim How would you like to lose weight by just putting a patch onto your skin? Weight loss patches seem to be all the rage in todayâ€™s fitness industry, with celebrities endorsing patches that contain different drugs that allegedly allow you to lose weight even while simply sitting down at your office. Such weight loss patches contain compounds like Hoodia, and extract from an African plant that can apparently allow for easy weight loss.

However, recent cases brought before the Federal Trade Commission, or FTC, show that weight loss patches are not as good as they are cooked up to be. In particular, the FTC sued a retailer and manufacturer of weight loss patches for making false claims on a weight loss patch, and for not backing up the claims with any research.

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07-09-2007

Diet and Weight Loss News

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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.