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Eating a high-fat diet may rapidly injure brain cells that control body weight

June 8, 2011 by

Obesity among people who eat a high-fat diet may involve injury to neurons, or nerve cells, in a key part of the brain that controls body weight, according to the authors of a new animal study.

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