My take on this research is that pregnancy is a special case where higher postpartum serum leptin levels are beneficial in orignally trim pregnant women for the short term purpose of losing post-partum fat gained. When I speak on leptin to the patients of in my public talks, i make it clear that trim adults have low leptin levels. I explain that even though leptin goes up in the serum after a meal to decrease the appetite and therefore control the total calories consumed thus maintaining healthy weight, these trim adults, have lower leptin levels then leptin resistant overweight and obese adults. In your other articles you seem to agree with what I’ve just said but in this article I’m perceiving a cognitive disconnect.

My point is, this article is entitled “Different foods affect different leptin levels” but presents information that to the general public is confusing because from the title the reader expects to receive information on how they can alter their diet to affect leptin levels, instead they get information that only applies to lactating women, and has no ultimate value for the non-pregnant diet conscious person. If it is confusing for a well educated medical person to read, imagaine how the general public might take it. Please consider rewriting this article such that you differentiate how this data applies to originally trim lactating women but not to the average person.