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Malnutritive obesity ('malnubesity'): is it driven by human brain evolution?

Metabolic syndrome and related disorders - 1 Dec 2008

McGill Anne-Thea

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Abstract Health messages on low-energy diets for healthy weight loss are muddled and not working, and obesity rates are rising. Are there missing links? Accumulating evidence shows that humans have well developed 'self-addictive' appetite pathways to enhance the uptake of highly energy-dense food. Humans synthesize fewer co-factors and vitamins than other mammals and must ingest them. Both processes probably...

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Animals
Antioxidants
Biological Evolution
Brain
Diet
Energy Metabolism
Humans
Immune System
Malnutrition
Metabolism
Nutritional Sciences
Obesity

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PMID: 19067526
DOI: 10.1089/met.2008.0031

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