Scarce and unpredictable, yet obesogenic: modeling the impact of food insecurity on adiposity in mice

2025/04/24 by Alessandro Bartolomucci, John R. Speakman · 1 voice
Medicine · #Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet #Nutritional Studies and Diet #Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling

paper · doi:10.1002/oby.24295

Abstract

The authors declared no conflicts of interest. Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no new data were created or analyzed in this study.

Citations

• Food insecurity promotes adiposity in mice

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• Food insecurity drives obesity and adiposity, but how is unclear. A recent study by @clemmensenc.bsky.social developed a mouse model for this phenomenon lnkd.in/d8pEp2qv Happy to share a commentary [bsky, 7 points, 1 comments]

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