Scientists find a link between obesity and stress. As anyone who has had the urge to consume cartons of Twinkies and gallons of Haagen Dazs while cramming for a final exam could have told you.
Actually, the discovery sounds exciting as scientists found a biological "switch" in mice whereby they can suppress and reverse fat growth.
They did this by chronically stressing a set of mice and feeding them a high-fat diet, while feeding the same diet to another set of relaxed mice. The stressed mice got fat, the relaxed mice did not.
Scientists stressed the mice by yelling, "Garfield is coming, and boy is he hungry! Look out, here comes Garfield!" over and over.
Actually, they kind of waterboarded them by making them stand in ice water for prolonged periods. Cue PETA. I can practically write the press release -- scientists torture mice to serve human vanity.
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