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donderdag, april 20, 2023

Canaries in the coal mine: a cross-species analysis of the plurality of obesity epidemics - PMC


https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3081766/ 


The consistency of these findings among animals living in varying environments, suggests the intriguing possibility that the aetiology of increasing body weight may involve several as-of-yet unidentified and/or poorly understood factors (e.g. viral pathogens, epigenetic factors). This finding may eventually enhance the discovery and fuller elucidation of other factors that have contributed to the recent rise in obesity rates.