Why diets don't work? Starved brain cells eat themselves
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 - 11:31
in Biology & Nature
A report in the August issue of the Cell Press journal Cell Metabolism might help to explain why it's so frustratingly difficult to stick to a diet. When we don't eat, hunger-inducing neurons in the brain start eating bits of themselves. That act of self-cannibalism turns up a hunger signal to prompt eating.