You may not yet have heard of chylomicrons, but a nutritional scientist at the University of Alberta believes you will soon – especially if you care about preventing a stroke or heart attack. Dr.

Scientists have examined many ways to “beige” unhealthy white fat, turning it into energy-burning brown fat to fight obesity. But what if we could stop fat from entering body tissues in the first ...

The knowledge gap between why people with low 'bad' cholesterol levels are still susceptible to heart attacks could be near to closing with breakthrough research from a nutritional food scientist ...

In a Phase III clinical trial, the drug volanesorsen significantly reduced blood fat (triglyceride) levels in participants with a rare disease called familial chylomicronemia syndrome; finding could ...

OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether increasing body mass index (BMI) produces increasingly intense disturbances in the metabolism of chylomicrons, the lipoproteins that carry the dietary lipids absorbed ...

UCLA investigators have identified a new molecule that may help regulate the delivery of fats to cells for energy and storage. Published in the April issue of the journal Cell Metabolism, the finding ...

Scientists have identified a way in which fat is transferred into tissues, finding that altering this mechanism stopped mice from becoming obese while on a high-fat diet. The results hint at a ...