Researchers believe their patients ate more to stimulate the pleasure circuits in their brains. Giving obese people more dopamine may be an alternative to traditional weight loss programs. If you're trim everywhere else but have a big belly, it could be due to stress. High cortisol levels can increase visceral fat which is linked with diabetes and heart disease. Other factors that can increase cortisol aside from stress, are high fat diets, smoking, drinking and steroids.
Researchers recommend people change their diet and most of all relax, for the ironing board stomach.
Boys A new study reveals the long-term effects of chemotherapy on boys' reproductive systems. Doctors had long thought that exposure to chemo drugs prior to puberty was safe for the male reproductive organs, but tests done in Boston show the more boys are exposed to chemo, the lower their sperm count is later in life. A new study finds many women don't wait long enough to get pregnant again after undergoing a c-section. Researchers from Harvard say women need several months for their uterine scar tissue to heal properly. Not waiting can increase the risk of uterine rupture three-fold if women try to give birth vaginally the next time around.