Grizzly Bears Could Offer Clue To Weight Loss
A Grizzly Bear In Yellowstone National Park Wikimedia Commons About 1.5 billion people worldwide are clinically overweight. Given the dearth of good treatments for obesity -- there are only three drugs approved for weight loss, many with significant side effects -- perhaps we need to explore new avenues for ways to shed the fat. Kevin Corbit, a researcher at Washington State University, writes in the New York Times that grizzly bears may offer an answer. Why grizzly bears? Because of their miraculous habit of hibernation, which I could really get into. As Corbit writes: After an epic period of late-summer gorging, during which, every day, a bear may consume more than 50,000 calories and gain up to 16 pounds, it will fast for up to seven months. Then it subsists solely on stored fat,...