Study provides explanation for connection between low birth weight and obesity later in life
Thursday, March 10, 2011 - 05:00
in Health & Medicine
Providing further understanding of the link between low birth weights and obesity later in life, researchers found nutritionally deprived newborns are "programmed" to eat more because they develop less neurons in the region of the brain that controls food intake, according to an article published today in the journal, Brain Research.