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Originally Posted by Kitsune
I browsed around and found some interesting articles that detail how complex the issues is, including this one about stress. |
Interesting. This was front page news today in the
Washington Post because of the results of a new study.
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Scientists reported yesterday that they have uncovered a biological switch by which stress can promote obesity, a discovery that could help explain the world's growing weight problem and lead to new ways to melt flab and manipulate fat for cosmetic purposes.
In a series of experiments on mice, researchers showed that the neurochemical pathway they identified promotes fat growth in chronically stressed animals that eat the equivalent of a junk-food diet.
The international team also showed that blocking those signals can prevent fat accumulation and shrink fat deposits and that stimulating the pathway can strategically create new deposits -- possibly offering new ways to remove fat
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The Abstract from Nature Medicine.