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Giving rats palm oil quickly makes their brains send signals that usually make animals hungry, but even though those signals show up, the rats don’t end up eating more than usual.
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Brain Perception of Different Oils on Appetite Regulation: An Anorectic Gene Expression Pattern in the Hypothalamus Dependent on the Vagus Nerve
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2024 Jul 24The study found that palm oil actually lowered a hunger signal (NPY) in rats, not raised it like the claim says, so it doesn’t support the idea that palm oil makes you hungrier.
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