Dec 29, 2011

LINK: A huge article on how the body wants to regain lost weight

New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/magazine/tara-parker-pope-fat-trap.html
While researchers have known for decades that the body undergoes various metabolic and hormonal changes while it’s losing weight, the Australian team detected something new. A full year after significant weight loss, these men and women remained in what could be described as a biologically altered state. Their still-plump bodies were acting as if they were starving and were working overtime to regain the pounds they lost. 

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