Listen to your Leptin!

I really want a t-shirt telling the world to "Listen to your Leptin". It would be just sooo cool. The 25% of the country which is overweight would be doing well to heed the advice.

Leptin is the protein that tells your body when it has had enough to eat. Obese people actually produce MORE leptin than svelte people but, get this, us fatties just ignore the signals and carry on scoffing. We need to reduce the background noise so the message can get through to our brains... this means, yep, you guessed it, eating less. 

It's a vicious circle: the fatter you are, the harder it is to hear the leptin; when you slim down to a normal weight, it gets easier. 

So, mantra for the new year diet?
 
Listen to your Leptin.