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Image of electroacupuncture to the back from www.sandiegohealingarts.com A new study published in  AJP-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology suggests that electroacupuncture to the abdominal region may prevent increases in blood sugar concentrations after a meal by affecting insulin sensitivity and circulating free fatty acid concentrations.  Granted this is not comparative physiology research, I find it interesting that electrical stimulation can have such a large impact on metabolism, in mice at least. Drs. Nicola Abate and Jiande Chen, lead investigators on this study, fed…