Energy Expenditure

Optimizing indoor lighting to be brighter during daytime hours and dimmer in the evening may provide cardiometabolic benefits, according to study findings published in Diabetologia.

Vegetarian and vegan diets provide greater reductions in body weight, fat mass and LDL cholesterol and improved insulin sensitivity compared with other plant-based eating patterns, such as a Mediterranean diet, according to two speakers.

Metabolic rates appeared to be highest during infancy and stable through adulthood before declining after age 60 years, according to findings published in Science.

Genetic modifiers — many discovered in the late 1990s — can be “harnessed” to better understand the processes and mechanisms behind weight gain and one day even regulate appetite, according to a speaker.

New equations for determining resting energy expenditure are needed to provide optimal nutrition care in patients after renal transplantation, according to a published study.

by John D. Kelly IV, MD

Women treated with the overactive bladder medication mirabegron experienced rises in brown adipose tissue metabolic activity as well as insulin sensitivity, resting energy expenditure and other metabolic factors after 4 weeks of treatment, according to findings published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.