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Friday, February 13, 2009

Bigger brains blamed for overweight problem

The roots of the obesity epidemic are to be found in evolutionary changes to the human brain that took place as far back as two million years ago, research has suggested.

When humanity's ancestors first developed a large and sophisticated brain, it forced them to adopt a highly active hunter-gatherer lifestyle to meet its voracious...

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Source: world news

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