Professor Carol Snively believes that humans under social stress could develop similar problems.
In her study, subordinate monkeys were not included in group grooming sessions and were subject to more aggression. This social stress led to the development of abdominal fat.
Much of the excess fat in many people who are overweight is located in the abdomen, and that fat behaves differently than fat in other locations. If there is too much, it can have far more harmful effects on health that fat located in other areas, she wrote.
Prof. Snively's study appeared in the journal Obesity.
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