Abstract The 2013 Pennington Biomedical Research Center's Scientific Symposium focused
on the treatment and management of pediatric obesity and was designed to (i) review recent …

This article is part of a Special Issue “Energy Balance”. Obesity and its associated
comorbidities remain at epidemic levels globally and show no signs of abatement in either …

Excess vitamin intake during pregnancy leads to obesogenic phenotypes, and folic acid
accounts for many of these effects in male, but not in female, offspring. These outcomes may …

Since early times, being overweight and obesity have been associated with impaired
glucose metabolism and type 2 diabetes (T2D). Similarly, a less frequent adult-onset …

Common variants of human fat mass-and obesity-associated gene Fto have been linked
with higher body mass index, but the biological explanation for the link has remained …

Brown and beige adipocytes are characterised as expressing the unique mitochondrial
uncoupling protein (UCP) 1 for which the primary stimulus in vivo is cold exposure. The …

If one were to compare today's animal growth research to research from a mere 50 yr ago,
one would see programs with few similarities. The evolution of this research from whole …

Apart from direct inheritance and the effects of a shared environment, maternal health,
eating habits and diet can affect offspring health by developmental programming …

The race to manage the health concerns related to excess fat deposition has spawned a
proliferation of clinical and basic research efforts to understand variables including dietary …

Obesity is a multifactorial disease presenting sex-related differences including adipocyte
functions, sex hormone effects, genetics, and metabolic inflammation. These can influence …