Are you overweight? Are you apple-shaped? Do you have extra fat around your middle? Your belly fat could be why you are overweight. Researchers found abdominal fat tissue can reproduce a hormone that stimulates fat cell production.

An article in Science Daily confirms that abdominal fat tissue can reproduce a hormone that stimulates fat cell production. Dr. Yaiping Yang and his colleagues at Lawson Health Research Institute, an affiliate of the University of Western Ontario made this discovery. It is hoped that this research will change the way we treat the obese and obesity, especially abdominal obesity.

The hormone has been identified as Neuropeptide Y (NPY) and it is reproduced by abdominal fat tissue. This hormone was previously thought to be only produced by the brain so this novel finding should lead to a new therapeutic focus on combating obesity. It was long thought that the reasons why the overweight eat more food was because their brains were producing this hormone in larger amounts.

NPY (Neuropeptide) is the most powerful appetite stimulating hormone. It constantly sends hunger signals to individuals already overweight causing them to eat even more food. While a fat cell cannot replicate itself the researchers found that NPY increases the number of fat cells by stimulating the replication of fat cell precursor cells, these then change into fat cells.

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