Obesity

Food for thought: Obesity, diabetes may be all in the head

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, June 2nd, 2003

Researchers have homed in on a brain mechanism that reduces food intake and affects the availability of blood glucose. The results open the door to new ways of thinking about obesity and type II diabetes.

Luciano Rossetti and colleagues focused on the hypothalamus, a region of the brain that affects food intake. In experiments with mice, they examined how neurons in the hypothalamus respond to increased concentrations of long-chain fatty acids by decreasing glucose production in the liver and relying on fats - rather than carbohydrates - as a source of fuel. Their results were published in the June 2003 issue of Nature Medicine.

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