MEDICINE – RESEARCH – AUSTRALIA

Adult ‘baby fat’ could help weight loss

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Original article by Amy Corderoy
The Sydney Morning Herald – Page: 6 : 23-Jun-14

Garvan Institute endocrinologist and clinical research fellow Paul Lee is leading a study in the US and Australia on obesity. The research indicates that adults who sleep in a cool rather than hot room for a month develop "baby fat", or brown fat, that burns energy to produce heat. The scientists believe that each 60 grams of this substance can burn 4.5 kilograms of white fat during a year, and that current high obesity rates may be linked to modern dwellings being climate-controlled environments

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THE GARVAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH, INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ENDOCRINOLOGY, ENDOCRINE SOCIETY

Weight problems linked to overdue babies and rising caesarean rate

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Original article by Kate Hagan
The Age – Page: 4 : 18-Jun-14

Helena Parkington of Monash University’s School of Biomedical Sciences and Shaun Brennecke of the Royal Women’s Hospital (RWH) and University of Melbourne have published a new study in the "Nature Communications" journal. Based on uterine tissue samples from 70 RWH patients who gave birth by caesarean section, it argues that those who are overweight may be less able to go into labour. Obese women have difficulty reacting when electrical signals in the uterine muscle cells cease that prevent premature labour

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ROYAL WOMEN’S HOSPITAL, MONASH UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE