Think you’re arguing over money? Nope, you’re fighting because you ate too much fatty food for supper.
Today’s busy families often rely on fast food and take-out to keep everyone fed and on schedule. Researchers suspect that those types of food, which are often high in saturated fat, impact the body’s reaction to stress, leading to bouts of marital discord.
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Not all fat is the same: The GOOD kind of fat is what’s called "brown fat," because it helps you LOSE weight. Fat people have less of it than thin people. Older people have less of it than younger people. Men have less of it than younger women.
It’s actually is brown in color and it burns up calories as fast as you can ingest them. If scientists could find a pill that would increase our brown fat, obesity would be a thing of the past.
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We learn something new about obesity every day. We’ve learned that being fat starts in your brain, and now scientists say that appetite regulation has to do with the HAIRS in your brain. In other words, if you have fat brain hairs, you’ll have a fat body.
These tiny hairy projections, called cilia, are present on almost every cell of the body–including the brain. New research shows that the cilia on our appetite-regulating brain cells control whether our bodies get the "stop eating" signal in time for us to lay down our forks when we’ve had enough.
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If you’re fat, it might be because of the way your mother ate when she was pregnant. A high-fat diet during pregnancy can lead to obese children. And mothers who were mistreated as children have an increased risk of giving birth to low birth weight babies.
This is often (but not always) part of growing up in poverty. Researcher said Amelia Gavin says, "Our findings suggest that a mother’s economic position in childhood and her experience of maltreatment during childhood have implications for her children born years later. To our knowledge, this is the first study to show that maternal childhood maltreatment may lead to lower birth weight among later-born offspring."
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