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American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol 1, 100-106, Copyright © 1953 by The American Society for Clinical Nutrition, Inc.

An Alternate Approach to THE PROBLEM OF OBESITY

A. W. PENNINGTON M.D.1

1 From the E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Wilmington, Delaware

Evidence for a homeostatic regulation of the appetite and of fat storage suggests, as a cause of obesity, some other hypothesis than "simple overfeeding." Two hypotheses are discussed. These are (1) psychic stress operating through the autonomic nervous system on the hypothalamus, and (2) the "lipophilia" concept of obesity. The type of treatment to which each of these concepts of obesity leads is indicated.






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