Lack of sleep causing obesity epidemic?
Challenging the long-held notion that the main function of sleep is to give rest to the brain, researchers have found…
Fattening-up with Facebook
Social and physical environments can have a profound effect on metabolic processes, say the scientists behind rodent experiments that showed…
The Skinny On Bad Fat
The role that inflammation plays in diabetes, heart disease and other disorders is a hot topic in medical research these…
Fat Gets A Makeover
Body fat doesn’t just, er, make you fat. It also acts as a repository for all sorts of potentially nasty…