Tiny Tongue of a Fruit Fly Could Offer Big Clues in Fight Against Obesity, Researcher Says

How stupid are you if you are a fat person and fall for more of this crap?

The tiny tongue of a fruit fly could provide big answers to questions about human eating habits, possibly even leading to new ways to treat obesity, according to a study from a team of Texas A&M University researchers.

Paul Hardin, who holds the rank of Distinguished Professor of Biology, along with colleagues Abhishek Chatterjee, Shintaro Tanoue and Jerry Houl, examined the taste organs on Drosophila's proboscis (tongue), which triggers the minute fruit fly's desire to eat or not to eat. They found that several factors, especially the creature's internal daily clock, determine feeding behaviors -- and these same taste sensitivities very likely apply to humans.

How many articles that promise the "cure" for overfatness do you have to see day in and day out, week in and week out, month in and month out, year in and year out, decade in and decade out before you get that it ain't coming?

This is your savior:



However, the real "cure," i.e, the only "cure," is already here. Eat fewer Calories than you burn.

The rest, i.e., the latest and greatest research, is all a scam.

"By looking closely at factors that control Drosophila's desire to eat, we can draw comparisons to human eating behaviors," Hardin says.

"If we could adjust the key internal clocks, we might be able to control food consumption and, of course, that would be a big step in the fight against obesity."

If we could just shut you and your ilk up, THAT would be a big step in the fight against obesity.

So would cutting off all your funding.