Why You Are Not What You Eat

No. You are not what you eat. You are what your body does with what you eat, and as research conducted
at the University of California in San Francisco suggests, different bodies do different things with the same foods. The Scientific American reports that the research indicates that the neurotransmitter serotonin, long known to influence appetite, also influences fat metabolism (the rate at which food is turned into energy). Geezer notes one caveat: the research, published in the journal Cell Metabolism, was not conducted with humans, but with round worms. Read more in the Scientific American.