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Anorexia susceptibility may be linked to stress-coping strategy and mom’s stress levels during pregnancy

July 8, 2015 by

Researchers have found that offspring born to mother rats stressed during pregnancy lost weight faster and failed to turn on appropriate brain hunger signals in response to exercise and food restriction, compared to offspring from non-stressed mothers.

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