Scientists find high-fat diet disrupts body clock

Our body’s 24-hour internal clock, or circadian clock, regulates the time we go to sleep, wake up and become hungry as well as the daily rhythms of many metabolic functions. The clock -- an ancient molecular machine found in organisms large and small, simple and complex -- properly aligns one’s physiology with one’s environment.

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<p><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news113575518.html">Scientists find high-fat diet disrupts body clock</a></p> <p>Our body’s 24-hour internal clock, or circadian clock, regulates the time we go to sleep, wake up and become hungry as well as the daily rhythms of many metabolic functions. The clock -- an ancient molecular machine found in organisms large and small, simple and complex -- properly aligns one’s physiology with one’s environment.</p>