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Tuesday, December 25, 2012

ScienceDaily: Top Science News

ScienceDaily: Top Science News


How excess holiday eating disturbs your 'food clock'

Posted: 24 Dec 2012 08:33 AM PST

If the sinful excess of holiday eating sends your system into butter-slathered, brandy-soaked overload, you are not alone: People who are jet-lagged, people who work graveyard shifts and plain-old late-night snackers know just how you feel. All these activities upset the body's "food clock," a collection of interacting genes and molecules known technically as the food-entrainable oscillator, which keeps the human body on a metabolic even keel. A new study is helping to reveal how this clock works on a molecular level.

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