Today’s Lab Rats of Obesity:Furry, Fattened Couch Potatoes
The latest research on human obesity is using monkeys as the research subject. This is because monkeys are closest to humans when it comes to research implications from other animals. It was not the sedentary enforced on the monkeys or even the availability of excess calories to ingest that caused the weight gain. It was the introduction of high fructose corn syrup into their diets that caused the monkeys to finally gain weight. It has long been suspected that high fructose corn syrup is the food type that most contributes to human obesity. It should be avoided as much as possible.
