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Baboon behavior offers clues in the all-too-human battle of the bulge

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, March 31st, 2003

Lack of exercise - and not diet - causes obesity and diabetes among those who are predisposed to the conditions, suggests new research on wild baboons by Saint Louis University geriatricians.

In addition, researchers discovered that obese animals were not the ones with the highest cholesterol levels, suggesting cholesterol problems and obesity are triggered by different mechanisms. Their findings were published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.

"Figuratively speaking, if humans don't exercise, some are likely to become obese and as fat as baboons. You're genetically predisposed or you're not," said William A. Banks,...

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