Science is getting into the MORE DANGEROUS zone…while this new development seems great, I think it’s absolutely scary.

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According to the article:

The foods, under development at the Clore Laboratory at the University of Buckingham, will be supplemented with leptin, the hunger hormone. Those who take the foods early in life should remain permanently slim. ‘Like those people who are lean by nature even though they overeat ? like we all do — they will tend to be inefficient in terms of using energy,’ says Mike Cawthorne, who heads the Metabolic Research group at Clore.

Cawthorne’s group has already demonstrated that supplementing infant rats’ diets with leptin means that they never get fat or develop diabetes (AM J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol, doi: 10.1152/ajpregu.00676.2006). Even animals fed a high-fat diet remained slim.

Leptin, the fat hormone that turns off hunger in the brain, is produced in the body throughout life. Its discovery was heralded as a major breakthrough, but research in adults proved disappointing because individuals soon seemed to resist its hunger-quenching effect.

Read the full article here…

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What ever happened to good ol’ breast milk??