A researcher in Cornell University is working to break the inextricable link between obesity and type II diabetes.
A researcher in Cornell University is working to break the inextricable link between obesity and type II diabetes.
Ling Qi, an assistant professor of nutritional sciences in Cornell's College of Human Ecology, says that finding just the right gene could do it.
Chemicals Behind Obesity Epidemic
Being overweight may not be just the result of personal choices about what you eat, combined with inactivity. It could even be exposure to an array of chemicals while in the womb.
Being overweight may not be just the result of personal choices about what you eat, combined with inactivity. It could even be exposure to an array of chemicals while in the womb.
He says that he is focusing on the endoplasmic-reticulum (ER) stress response, which affects the expression of proteins, and the inflammation status of fat tissues.
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