The University of Sydney

From
locusts
to obesity

The study of locusts’ eating habits sounds like an unlikely starting point for the study of human obesity. But it was this research that led Professor Stephen Simpson to discover some of the factors that allow people to overlook their inherent nutritional wisdom and become obese.

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