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The debate over who's to blame for obesity — society or the individual — is an interesting one many of you have been involved in on this blog. It makes me think of this passage from Fed Up! Winning the War Against Childhood Obesity by Dr. Susan Okie. The first sentence is a little technical, but stick with it: The control centers for tracking energy balance and regulating body weight are located primarily in the hypothalamus, a small part of the brain that specializes in integrating messages from other parts of the body and orchestrating the organism's response to its environment...(Columbia University obesity scientist Rudy) Leibel points out that unconscious signals sent by the hypothalamus to the cerebral cortex, the "thinking" part of the brain, contribute to such conscious actions as ordering pizza or having a second piece of pie. "Just because a behavior is involved does not mean that all aspects of the behavior are 'voluntary' in the usual sense...
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