Lard Lesson: Why Fat Lubricates Your Appetite
Monday, October 19, 2009 - 17:35
in Health & Medicine
When you've spent the weekend splurging on greasy fast foods, your bathroom scale isn't alone in reeling from the impact. Your brain does, too. New research shows just how saturated fat tricks us into eating more and elucidates the evolutionary basis for the propensity for poundage in developed nations. Our brain physiology, it seems, is glaringly out-of-date in the modern world. [More]
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