Liver, Brain Communicate In Order To Regulate Appetite

Friday, November 14, 2014 - 10:20 in Health & Medicine

Here's a diet tip that is certain to work: Eat nothing and drink nothing except water from 6 PM until you wake up the next day. With no dieting at all, you are certain to lose weight unless you go out of your way to eat three Big Macs at dinner.The reason is because your other organs and your brain start communicating - and many of them get a break from constantly processing food. Studies have found that mice who accumulated the most glycogen in the liver did not gain weight in spite of having access to an appetizing diet. In addition to observing that those animals ate less, researchers have found that the brains of the animals showed scarce appetite-stimulating molecules but rather many appetite-suppressing ones. read more

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