Stanford University researchers have identified a hormone that supresses appetite!
Named “obestatin” (how apropos), when injected into rats it supressed their food intake. [How’d you like to be the graduate student assigned to collect those data?]
One expert, though, is sounding a note of caution on these exciting findings:
Now there’s a novel idea – prescribe a hormone for overweight patients that makes them sick and vomit. We oncologists certainly agree that this strategy works; in fact in our universe we see it every day.
We call it cancer.
In case you still think you can eat anything you want and weigh as much as you can possibly fit on your human frame, pehaps you should read this. Then go and read this.