Your body has a set of scales,
To help to regulate the fat;
Detecting where your weight is at,
A backup if your leptin fails.
It keeps you on more healthy trails,
By checking out your habitat;
Your body has a set of scales,
To help to regulate the fat.
Attaching weights to rodent’s tails
Has proved this with one caveat:
Humans are neither mouse nor rat.
But these are just minor details;
Your body has a set of scales.
Your body’s bathroom scales help to regulate fat mass (Photo Credit: Alan Cleaver).
This is a Rondel, inspired by recent research that has found evidence for a previously undiscovered internal body weight sensing system,
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