Lard Lesson: Why Fat Lubricates Your Appetite
Saturated fat dulls the brain's response to key appetite hormones, an effect useful in our evolutionary past during times of scarcity, but not so much in a well-fed society
When you've spent the weekend splurging on greasy fast foods, your bathroom scale isn't alone in reeling from the impact. Your brain does, too. New research shows just how saturated fat tricks us into eating more and elucidates the evolutionary basis for the propensity for poundage in developed nations. Our brain physiology, it seems, is glaringly out-of-date in the modern world. Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala - via Scientific American
Switch to a Mediterranean diet, avoid most meat and other saturated fats, and health will be much more likely.