Do you struggle to lose weight, or can you eat for England without putting on a pound? New research released by American scientists say it’s all to do with brain wiring, which could explain the growing obesity epidemic on both sides of the pond.

This innovative new research could explain why two people – for example, siblings – who consume the same high fat Western diet, but one piles on the pounds to obesity and diabetes while the other stays slim and slender.  As reported in The Telegraph, researchers at Yale University in Connecticut looked at the food consumption patterns of rats, and found rats that overate had more ‘sluggish’ nerve endings that were slower at signalling when their stomachs were full. This wasn’t down to binge-eating either – these rats simply consumed more at each mealtime. The rats that stayed slimmer despite eating the same diet had quicker neural impulses meaning they ate less.

Professor Tamas Horvath, a neurobiologist at Yale University said, ‘It appears that this base wiring of the brain is a determinant of one's vulnerability to develop obesity […] These observations add to the argument that it is less about personal will that makes a difference in becoming obese, and, it is more related to the connections that emerge in our brain during development.’

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