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Eating
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Eating (343 kb) |
Nova: Obesity & Leptin (13 mins) | The rich get rich, the poor get fat, by A. Gawande, Slate | |
| Nova: Epigenetics (watch from 3 to 7.3 mins) | Malnutrition & Poverty (1, 2) | ||
| do obese people have a 'sweet tooth'? |
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Useful Links |
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| Lectures on food intake regulation and neural control of feeding (U.of Plymouth) | ||
| picky eaters | go out to eat | |
| Genetic and environmental causes of obesity: The case of Pima Indians (click here) | ||
| NIH information on weight loss (click here) | ||
| The National Institute of Mental Health provides most reliable information on eating disorders and other mental health issue | ||
| Society for the Scientific Study of Ingestive Behavior (ssib) | ||