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There is no denying it; obesity is now a major epidemic in the United States. In response, researchers have been diligently seeking the answer three important questions - What makes people fat, why diets don't work, and what triggers appetite?

The answer to the first question can be answered simplistically. Obesity is simply the result of eating more calories than are being burned by the body. However, it is much more complex of an issue than that. In fact, what modern research has uncovered is that obesity is not just a matter of overeating. There are sound physiological reasons why some people can eat very large quantities of calories and not increase their weight substantially while for others just the reverse is true.

Research with animals and humans has found that each person has a programmed "set point" weight. The "set point" is the weight that a body tries to maintain by regulating caloric intake. It has been postulated that individual fat cells control this set point: when the fat cell becomes smaller, it sends a powerful message to the brain to eat. Since the obese individual often has both more and larger fat cells, the result is an overpowering urge to eat. While using various appetite regulators as therapeutic agents in human obesity is possible, preliminary studies seem to indicate that in humans compensatory actions may negate the effect.

The perfect drug or natural product to impact appetite must possess an ability to increase insulin sensitivity and to produce a targeted effect of reducing those factors which increase appetite while simultaneously increasing those factors that decrease appetite.

The information presented is for informational purposes only. The results reported may not necessarily occur in all individuals. Consult your doctor or health care practitioner for any health problem.

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