Just Like Us, Social Stress Prompts Hamsters To Overeat, Gain Weight
Put a mouse or a rat under stress and what does it do? It stops eating. Humans should be so lucky. When people suffer nontraumatic stress they often head for the refrigerator, producing unhealthy extra pounds.When Syrian hamsters, which are normally solitary, are placed in a group-living situation, they also gain weight. So scientists at the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience at Georgia State University are using hamsters as a model for human stress-induced obesity. [click link for full article]

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AP - IN THE KNOW: Nearly 80 percent of Americans insist they check labels on food at the grocery store, a new AP-Ipsos poll shows.

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