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• Columbia Tribune - Professor Fights against Plastic

  http://archive.columbiatribune.com/2007/mar/20070304news009.asp
  Vom Saal, a biology professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia, discusses his studies of bisphenol-A in connection with obesity and aggression. It's a synthetic hormone, similar to estrogen, used to make rigid, clear plastic containers for food, water and baby bottles.

• Genetics of Food Intake, Body Weight and Obesity

  http://arbl.cvmbs.colostate.edu/hbooks/pathphys/digestion/pregastric/fatgenes.html
  Gene involved in initial identification and maintaining body weight.

• Human Choriogonadotropin and Obesity Treatment

  http://indexmedico.com/obesity/hcg.htm
  Research results about using oral administration of Human Choriogonadotropin to decrease subcutaneous fat in dieting obese patients.

• NBC News - Scientists Discover ‘Skinny’ Gene

  http://www.nbcnews.com/id/20535978/
  Genetic basis for staying thin, found in a variety of animals including humans.

• New York Times - Low Buzz May Give Mice Better Bones and Less Fat

  http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/30/health/research/30bone.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin
  Short periods of mechanical vibration appear to reduce obesity in mice.

• Overproducing leptin receptors in fat cells may be key to halting weight gain

  http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-12/usmc-olr113005.php
  Study by researchers suggests that when fat cells increase in size, as they do during the development of obesity, the cells progressively lose receptors for the hormone leptin, a powerful stimulus for fat burning.

• Salon - Does plastic make us fat?

  http://www.salon.com/2007/07/16/obesity_5/
  Article written by Andrew Leonard pertaining to environmental chemicals like bisphenol A, and their effects on humans.

• Santa Barbara Independent - Eating French

  http://independent.com/news/2007/oct/25/eating-french/
  Psychologist considers why the French are thin despite their diet, concluding it is the environment in which the food is consumed.

• Washington Post - Way to Shrink, Grow Fat Is Found

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/01/AR2007070100431.html
  Scientists report on a biological switch by which stress can promote obesity, a discovery that could help explain the world's growing weight problem and lead to new ways to melt flab and manipulate fat for cosmetic purposes

 

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