The 'skinny' on childhood obesity: How our western environment starves kids' brains

Pediatric Annals

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 898-907

  Lustig, Robert H ^a,b  

^a Division of Endocrinology ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSULIN; LEPTIN;

EPIGENETICS; HUMAN; HYPERINSULINEMIA; MEDICAL LITERATURE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REVIEW; STARVATION; THERMODYNAMICS; UNITED STATES; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; DIET; FRUCTOSE; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS, MIDDLE; LEPTIN; OBESITY; SATIETY RESPONSE; STARVATION; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 33846284550     PISSN: 00904481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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