High Fat Diet Changes The Body Clock
US researchers have discovered that a high fat diet can change a mammal’s body clock and thereby disrupt a range of behavioural and physiological processes, including those controlled by genes that switch on and off at certain times to keep the body’s metabolism, storage and use of energy in balance.The study is published in the journal Cell Metabolism and was carried out by researchers at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. [click link for full article]
More: continued here
Filed under: Nutrition / Diet on November 9th, 2007