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Sexual differentiation in control of fat ingestion reviewed

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, March 14th, 2005

A scientist reviews sexual differentiation in the control of fat ingestion in a recent issue of Physiology and Behavior.

According to a study from the United States, "Sexual differentiation is a fundamental aspect of human physiology. Therefore, this review considers whether the physiological control of eating, as related to dietary fat, is sexually differentiated. The effects of dietary fat are considered from the perspective of stimuli controlling eating that arise from oral, gastric, intestinal, hepatic, and adipose sites."

"The data reviewed provide substantial support for hypothesis that many such controls of fat ingestion are sexually...

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