Get Up And Do Something: Fast Food Diet Participants Paid to Purposely Gain Weight

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Fast Food Diet Participants Paid to Purposely Gain Weight Oct 3rd 2012, 13:22 Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis are making an unusual offer: They are paying people to add fat to their own bodies by eating an extra 1,000-calorie fast food meal each day for three months. Dr. Samuel Klein, the lead researcher in the study, wanted to do some basic research on why only some people who gain weight develop diabetes and hypertension, while others do not. It's something he said he couldn't research by feeding food pellets to lab animals. "What you learn in rodents does not always translate to people," Klein said. "What you learn on flies and worms won't translate to people."

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