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- Human Choriogonadotropin and Obesity Treatment Research results about using oral administration of Human Choriogonadotropin to decrease subcutaneous fat in dieting obese patients.
- Genetics of Food Intake, Body Weight and Obesity Gene involved in initial identification and maintaining body weight.
- Overproducing leptin receptors in fat cells may be key to halting weight gain Study by researchers suggests that when fat cells increase in size, as they do during the development of obesity, the cells progressively lose receptors for the hormone leptin, a powerful stimulus for fat burning.
- Santa Barbara Independent - Eating French Psychologist considers why the French are thin despite their diet, concluding it is the environment in which the food is consumed.
- New York Times - Low Buzz May Give Mice Better Bones and Less Fat Short periods of mechanical vibration appear to reduce obesity in mice.
- Columbia Tribune - Professor Fights against Plastic Vom Saal, a biology professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia, discusses his studies of bisphenol-A in connection with obesity and aggression. It's a synthetic hormone, similar to estrogen, used to make rigid, clear plastic containers for food, water and baby bottles.
- Washington Post - Way to Shrink, Grow Fat Is Found Scientists report on a biological switch by which stress can promote obesity, a discovery that could help explain the world's growing weight problem and lead to new ways to melt flab and manipulate fat for cosmetic purposes
- NBC News - Scientists Discover ‘Skinny’ Gene Genetic basis for staying thin, found in a variety of animals including humans.
- Salon - Does plastic make us fat? Article written by Andrew Leonard pertaining to environmental chemicals like bisphenol A, and their effects on humans.