If you’ve ever thought that your favorite food was “calling your name,” irresistibly drawing you to the refrigerator, it’s not just all in your head. Well, actually it is in your head. But, it’s very real. Let me explain… A study at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas has found that fat from certain foods goes to the brain and triggers the brain to send messages to the cells in the body, telling them to ignore the appetite-suppressing signals from leptin and in

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Researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center found mice with increased levels of the chemical orexin don't gain weight when fed a high-fat diet. The chemical works by increasing the body's sensitivity to the so-called "weight-loss hormone" leptin, the researchers said.

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by James Hubbard, M.D., M.P.H. Not eating enough potassium appears to be related to high blood pressure—independent of how much salt you eat—reported Dr. Susan Hedayati at the American Society of Nephrology annual meeting. (Dr. Hedayati works at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, where I trained, since it is affiliated with Parkland Hospital.) I look [...]

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DALLAS, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- Nearly one-quarter of all women suffer from pelvic-floor disorders, such as incontinence, at some point in their lives, U.S. researchers said. Researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center found that the study of nearly 2,000 women in seven U.S. cities found that 23.7 percent of participants had experienced at least one pelvic-floor disorder, and the risk increased with age. Study author Dr. Joseph Schaffer the national rate of pelvic-floor dis

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