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Scientists find clues to why binge-drinking causes binge-eating

Reuters: Science - Posted: January 10th, 2017, 11:37am UTC

LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have found that the brain cells in mice that stimulate the urge to eat can be activated by alcohol as well as by hunger - a discovery that could help explain why binge drinking often leads to binge eating.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=YFjT6_4SU9Q:PvV514zsS2Q:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=YFjT6_4SU9Q:PvV514zsS2Q:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=YFjT6_4SU9Q:PvV514zsS2Q:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=YFjT6_4SU9Q:PvV514zsS2Q:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=YFjT6_4SU9Q:PvV514zsS2Q:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/scienceNews/~4/YFjT6_4SU9Q" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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