Monitoring food and health news -- with particular attention to fads, fallacies and the "obesity" war
Summary of findings to date: Everything you can possibly eat or drink is both bad and good for you
"Let me have men about me that are fat... Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look ... such men are dangerous." -- Shakespeare
Friday, August 04, 2006
Vaccine against fat!: "Scientists have vaccinated rats against a weight-gain hormone, allowing them to eat freely without getting fat, in a development that raises hopes for treatments for overweight and obese humans. The vaccine operates against ghrelin - a recently discovered hormone among several which appear to regulate metabolism. Ghrelin is thought to be implicated in a problem that frustrates many dieters: the tendency for weight to be regained even after successful dieting. Researchers believe the phenomenon would have conferred an evolutionary advantage among early humans, whose food supply was irregular - ensuring maximum use of available calories during times of famine and programming the body to return quickly to its highest weight."
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