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Eating these foods may reduce inflammation and indirectly lower weight and assist blood sugar control. There may also be considerable advantage in consuming citrus peel. Bitter orange peel has been used as a drug by practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine for over 1,000 years, and for reasons modern science can understand. The auraptene in citrus peel activates a gene called PPAR-gamma in the fat cells, the same gene that is activated by Actos and Avandia.
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How interesting! Why does this remind me about the total cholesterol / HDL evolution of viewpoints?!
My experience with dieting is that I can lose fat from everywhere except my stomach; my sister's the same. Our genetic heritage is Northern european. I wonder if there's something about that last layer of visceral fat (assuming that's what it is) that the body actually needs, and so defends?
Thanks for alerting me to the research. Looks very worth watching!
Nicky.
There's so much we don't know about this, alas!