Menopause
Study helps explain relationship between weight gain and female hormones
Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, December 1st, 2003
The study helps demonstrate how female hormones appear to play a major role in America's obesity epidemic. The findings may also provide new methods for fighting obesity. Additional data from the research relate to the long-held belief that food eaten late at night may lead to weight gain and to changes in metabolism with age.
The results of the study were presented Judy Cameron, PhD, and her colleagues on November 12, 2003, at the annual Society for Neuroscience Meeting, held this year in New...
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