Dr. Stephen Hursting discusses obesity research
April 25, 2016 • Watch Stephen Hursting, Ph.D., M.P.H. discuss his research on Fox 46.
Study Finds Weight Loss Amount is More Important than Diet Type in Reversing Obesity-Cancer Link
March 28, 2016 • Researchers striving to break the link between obesity and cancer have found in a new preclinical study that significant weight loss through calorie restriction, but not moderate weight loss through a low-fat diet, was linked to reduced breast cancer growth. The preliminary findings (abstract #4321) will be presented from 1-5 p.m. April 19 at the 2016 American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting in New Orleans.
Childhood Obesity: A Major Health Concern
March 24, 2016 • Obesity is a disease that impacts all levels of society. It is the most prevalent nutritional disorder among children and adolescents and is continuing to rise. In 2012 more than one-third of children and adolescents were overweight or obese. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), childhood obesity has more than doubled in children and quadrupled in adolescents over the past 30 years.
NRI Researcher Receives Award to Further Work on Obesity and Cancer
December 1, 2015 • University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill professor Stephen Hursting has received a prestigious National Cancer Institute (NCI) Outstanding Investigator Award (OIA), which provides stable funding for cancer research with breakthrough potential. Dr. Hursting, a professor in UNC’s Department of Nutrition, Nutrition Research Institute and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, is one of 43 researchers nationwide to receive an OIA. The grant will provide Hursting with $5.34 million over a seven-year period to further his research on the mechanistic links between obesity and cancer.
Liver Cancer Report Reveals New Links: Coffee is Protective, Obesity Increases Risk
April 1, 2015 • For the first time, a report from an ongoing systematic review of global research finds that drinking coffee lowers risk for liver cancer, a disease that is increasing in the U.S. and the second leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide.
Today’s report also finds strong evidence linking body fatness to increased risk for liver cancer. This means that liver cancer now officially joins the growing list of cancers caused by overweight and obesity. Sixty-nine percent of U.S. adults are currently overweight or obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Effects of Calorie Restriction and Diet-Induced Obesity on Murine Colon Carcinogenesis, Growth and Inflammatory Factors, and MicroRNA Expression
Effects of calorie restriction and diet-induced obesity on murine colon carcinogenesis, growth and inflammatory factors, and microRNA expression.
Olivo-Marston SE, Hursting SD, Perkins SN, Schetter A, Khan M, Croce C, Harris CC, Lavigne J.
PLoS One. 2014 Apr 14;9(4):e94765. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0094765. eCollection 2014.
PMID: 24732966
Obesity-associated systemic interleukin-6 promotes pre-adipocyte aromatase expression via increased breast cancer cell prostaglandin E2 production
Obesity-associated systemic interleukin-6 promotes pre-adipocyte aromatase expression via increased breast cancer cell prostaglandin E2 production.
Bowers LW, Brenner AJ, Hursting SD, Tekmal RR, deGraffenried LA.
Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2014 Dec 5. [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 25476497
Epigenetic transgenerational inheritance: Should obesity- prevention policies be reconsidered
Niculescu M.D. (2011) Epigenetic transgenerational inheritance: Should obesity-prevention policies be reconsidered? Synesis J, 2, G18-26.