Why can’t we eat less? This question has been tormenting anyone who struggles for a lifetime with their weight. Although most people believe that this is due to their weak character, a prominent American doctor believes the cause is something else. Child-endocrinologist Dr Robert Lasting, Professor of the Pediatric Clinic at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) and one of the leading experts in the United States on the issue of obesity, delivers the entire problem in leptin – the hormone which acts as one of the two “thermostats” of our appetite, restricting it when we are full (the second hormone of hunger is ghrelin which increases the appetite). When someone has eaten enough, the adipose cells of …
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