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Appetite-Control Hormone May Cut Alzheimer's Risk

Rob Quinn — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:00:00 CST

High levels of a hormone that regulates appetite has been linked to a much lower risk of developing Alzheimer's disease in new research. Scientists probing the connection between obesity and Alzheimer's found that out of the 198 volunteers studied, those with the highest levels of leptin were four times less...

New Treatment Resurrects Weight-Loss Drug

Ambreen Ali — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:56:02 CST

Researchers may have found a way to treat obesity with leptin—the appetite-suppressant once hailed, then dismissed, as a cure to America’s bulging belly. An area of brain cells seemingly stressed by obesity allowed the obese to build up resistance to leptin, Reuters reports, but by injecting drugs to reduce...

Researchers Fight Fat With Baby Formula

Dustin Lushing — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:18:09 CDT

The battle to keep pounds off may start with a baby bottle, say a team of British scientists who found that feeding large doses of the appetite-controlling hormone leptin to baby rats led to svelte adult rats. If those results translate to humans, a baby formula that chemically alters metabolism...