New Undertsanding of Gut Hormones and Gut Function Sheds Light on Obesity

[Lindsay]

True or False: Overweight and obese people have the same sensitivity and function regarding their hunger hormones as lean people?

They definitely do not and is one of the reasons there is a difference between training someone with 10 or 20 pounds to lose and training someone with 50 or more pounds. One of the biggest issues with body change professionals is the idea ...that you can translate your own experience or the experience of working with athletes and people who are relatively lean over to working with obese individuals. It is an entirely different game and illustrates clearly that the calorie model continue to provide an incomplete and over-simplistic view of body change

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101018092154.htm