"The tendency toward obesity is directly related to the brain system that is involved in food reward and addictive behaviors, according to a new study. Researchers at Tufts University School of Medicine (TUSM) and colleagues have demonstrated a link between a predisposition to obesity and defective dopamine signaling in the mesolimbic system in rats. Their report appears in the August 2008 issue of The FASEB Journal. "They neglected to join the line with the sick care, governmental and business systems that reward overfatness at the expense of the fit.
The system involved is not the mesolimbic.
It is the me-so-fatic-now-do-something-for-me system.
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