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Medical News Today Concord Grape Juice Has No Significant Impact On Body Weight  - Mon, 06 Oct 2008 Regular consumption of 100% polyphenol-rich Concord grape juice did not cause significant weight gai...... Obese Diners Choose Convenience And Overeating At Chinese Buffets  - Mon, 06 Oct 2008 When dining at Chinese Buffets, overweight individuals serve themselves and eat differently than nor...... School Vending Machines Dole Out Excess Calories, Fat - USA  - Mon, 06 Oct 2008 Despite efforts to include more healthy choices at schools, standard offerings from vending machines...... Burger King(R) Goes Trans Fat Free, USA  - Mon, 06 Oct 2008 Burger King Corp. (NYSE:BKC) announced that all BURGER KING® restaurants nationwide are now cooking ...... Reading Can Help Obese Kids Lose Weight  - Mon, 06 Oct 2008 It's no secret that reading is beneficial. But can it help kids lose weight? In the first study to l...... Regulating Energy Supply To The Brain During Fasting  - Mon, 06 Oct 2008 If the current financial climate has taught us anything, it's that a system where over-borrowing goe...... 32 Cases Of Salmonella Linked To Microwaving Raw Chicken  - Mon, 06 Oct 2008 The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued a pu...... MSF Still Blocked In Maradi Despite A New Memorandum Of Understanding  - Sun, 05 Oct 2008 Ten weeks after Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières' (MSF) authorization to treat mal...... Obese People, Normal Weight People, And Behavior At The Chinese Buffet  - Sat, 04 Oct 2008 Behavior at the buffet is quite different between normal weight diners and overweight diners accordi...... Link Found Between Energy Insecurity And Food Insecurity  - Sat, 04 Oct 2008 An article published in the October 2008 edition of the journal Pediatrics finds that infants and to...... Melamine-contaminated Powdered Infant Formula In China - Update, World Health Organization  - Fri, 03 Oct 2008 More than 54,000 infants and young children have sought medical treatment in relation to the melamin...... Melamine And Cyanuric Acid: Toxicity, Preliminary Risk Assessment And Guidance On Levels In Food - World Health Organization  - Fri, 03 Oct 2008 An increased incidence of kidney stones and renal failure in infants has been reported in China, bel...... Nutrition & Metabolism Body circumferences: clinical implications emerging from a new geometric model  - 06/10/2008 Background: Body volume expands with the positive energy balance associated with the development of ...... A high throughput live transparent animal bioassay to identify non-toxic small molecules or genes that regulate vertebrate fat metabolism for obesity drug development  - 27/08/2008 Background: The alarming rise in the obesity epidemic and growing concern for the pathologic consequ...... Conjugated linoleic acid modulation of risk factors associated with atherosclerosis  - 21/08/2008 Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) has been the subject of extensive investigation regarding its possibl...... Skeletal muscle munc18c and syntaxin 4 in human obesity  - 24/07/2008 Background: Animal and cell culture data suggest a critical role for Munc18c and Syntaxin 4 proteins...... Potential antiproteolytic effects of L-leucine: observations of in vitro and in vivo studies  - 17/07/2008 The purpose of present review is to describe the effect of leucine supplementation on skeletal muscl...... CFSAN Food and Cosmetics Announcements FDA Detects Melamine Contamination in Flavored Drink  - Mon, 06 Oct 2008 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has increased inspections and product testing efforts in...... Questions and Answers about Melamine  - Fri, 03 Oct 2008 Questions and Answers about Melamine...... Interim Method for Determination of Melamine and Cyanuric Acid Residues In Foods using LC-MS/MS: Version 1.0  - Mon, 06 Oct 2008 Laboratory Information Bulletin 4422: Interim method for the determination of melamine and cyanuric ...... Determination of Melamine and Cyanuric Acid Residues in Infant Formula using LC-MS/MS  - Fri, 03 Oct 2008 Laboratory Information Bulletin No. 4421. A liquid chromatography triple quadrupole tandem mass spec...... FDA Issues Interim Safety and Risk Assessment of Melamine and Melamine-related Compounds in Food  - Fri, 03 Oct 2008 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today issued the results of its interim safety and risk ......