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Why Fat Grizzly Bears Don’t Get Diabetes
Grizzly bears pile on the fat every autumn, but in their obese state through hibernation, they do not appear to suffer health consequences like overweight humans do. Now scientists in Washington State are trying to figure out why, in the hope that studying bears will lead to possible therapies for human obesity and diabetes.
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