Are You Overeating

If you are overeating you may be setting yourself up to a vicious cycle that will promote obesity. The results of a new study suggests one way this cycle works is that when the gut senses too many calories, it shuts off a hormone that tells the brain that we are full.

Researchers at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania published their findings in the journal Nutrition & Diabetes that they came to this conclusion after observing mice on high-calorie diets.

Using non-obese mice in a previous research on colon cancer, the team had come across a hormone called uroguanylin that is …read more