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A new study reveals the first-ever genetic link between obesity and colon cancer risk, a finding that could lead to greater accuracy in testing for the disease, said a researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).
The discovery also may improve efforts to ward off colon cancer with obesity-fighting activities like exercise, weight loss and healthy eating.
The findings are published in JAMA, the Journal of the American Click here to read more.. »

METABOLISM: Keeping food consumption under control, a new role for the protein PrP
Tatsushi Onaka and colleagues, at Jichi Medical University, Japan, have provided new insight into the network of signals that emanate from the gut and the brainstem of rodents to regulate food intake.
In the study, neurons in the region of the rat brainstem known as the nucleus tractus solitarii that express Click here to read more.. »