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CONTROL CENTRE: Your brain might be contributing to your weight troubles
Carrying extra weight increases the risk of developing health issues like type 2 diabetes, heart disease and stroke, cancer and poorer mental health. Researchers say there are a number of factors that influence how much people eat and what they eat, including genetics, hormone regulation and their environment.It is not clear, however, what happens to the brain to tell us when we are hungry or full.
"Our hope is that, by taking this new approach to analysing brain scans in large datasets, we can further extend this work into humans, ultimately relating these subtle structural brain findings to changes in appetite and eating and generating a more comprehensive understanding of obesity." The researchers describe a significant relationship between volume of the hypothalamus and body mass index . The differences were most apparent in those sub-regions of the hypothalamus that control appetite through the release of hormones to balance hunger and fullness.
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