Mind over matter – the brain controls obesity.

New genetic research suggests that the brain has a significant role in controlling obesity, far more so than metabolism.  However, the research suggests that one’s natural genetics do influence the propensity to build body fat, but that propensity is a brain physiology rather than metabolic.

It remains true that a healthy lifestyle leads to a healthy body and an unhealthy lifestyle rapidly develops an unhealthy physique.

BBC report Obesity ‘controlled by the brain’

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