Why low birth weight is linked to obesity later in life: Study provides explanation

Thursday, March 10, 2011 - 18:20 in Health & Medicine

Researchers found nutritionally deprived newborns are "programmed" to eat more because they develop less neurons in the region of the brain that controls food intake.

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