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Wednesday, May 21, 2008

The genetics of comfort food!

Apparently higher status female monkeys eat more than lower status monkeys, who are always stressed out by their status. But when offered junk food (sugary banana pellets) the higher status females will munch on a few, whereas the lower status females will binge.

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(New York Times article)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I read the same article and thought it was pretty interesting. No wonder I crave banana pellets when I'm stressed.