Word: dallman
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...Sciences, is that it suggests that the extra girth can actually have a calming effect on the brain. Something in the abdominal fat--the researchers aren't sure what--seems to lower the rats' production of cortisol and other stress hormones. "This is absolutely a working hypothesis," says Mary Dallman, the neuroscientist who led the UCSF experiments. "But everything we see says there's a feedback from the belly fat to the brain...