Hormone regulates fondness for food
..., one of the key hormones responsible for reducing hunger and increasing the feeling of fullness, also contr...hen they over-ride the biological cues that govern hunger and fullness. Understanding eating behaviour therefore means that we must take into account physi...Millennium development goals: Are we on track?
...day, and reduce the proportion of people suffering hunger by half. In order to meet these goals, Webb highli...bjective (on hunger) removing the invisibility of hunger by better measuring and highlighting areas making limited progress, promoting innovations in program...Columbia dentists to improve oral health in sub-Saharan Africa
...me poverty and related challenges such as disease, hunger and lack of access to water and sanitation though scientifically sound and sustainable interventions. A third of the gift will be devoted to supporting the oral health program. Chronic diseases will soon become the leading cause of health problems ...Paying taxes, according to the brain, can bring satisfaction
...t of satisfaction you derive from feeding your own hunger pangs. A three-member team a cognitive psychologist and two economists published its results in the June 15 issue of the journal Science. The scientists gave 19 women participants $100 and then scanned their brains with functional magnetic resona...Latest IPCC report highlights need for integrated climate/human behavior models
...any different metrics (such as millions at risk of hunger or water stress in addition to economic damages)." "When also cast into the context of alternative mitigation strategies informed by science that describes the full range of possible futures, these portraits can clearly display one of the fundament...The Natural Fat-Loss Pharmacy by Dr. Harry Preuss
...esert rely on Hoodia, a form of cactus, to relieve hunger and thirst pangs. Caralluma is an edible Indian cactus that is used in chutneys and pickles and to control appetite, particularly in times of famine. As with Hoodia, scientists speculate that unique molecules in Caralluma affect the hypothalamus, swi...Americans fear decline in US performance in math and science
... global warming and 61% in eliminating poverty and hunger around the world Its clear that Americans believe the U.S. must provide stronger funding and more consistent policies to support the public and private sectors in research at the intersection of scientific disciplines, said Mary Woolley, president...Study finds gender differences related to eating and body image
... in response to external cues rather than internal hunger signals is one of the first steps involved in the development of disordered eating, be it anorexia, bulimia or compulsive eating. Our commercial mass media are filled with such external cues. "It is our hope that future studies will be devoted to ...Surveys find outright hunger among Latino immigrants in North Carolina
...l of Medicine researchers have found high rates of hunger in surveys of immigrant Latino families in eastern...ts of the N.C. population Latino immigrants with hunger more severe than areas of persistent poverty like Appalachia," said Sara A. Quandt, Ph.D.The overall...Penn critical-care physicians recommend strategies when facing requests to end supplemental oxygen
...as concerned that the patient would experience air hunger and fear after oxygen was removed, necessitating high doses of sedating drugs. He worried this might constitute a form of euthanasia. Hansen-Flaschen received a similar request from an outpatient who suffered from an advanced lung disease and was li...Is there a relationship between a mother prompting her child to eat and obesity?
...and therefore teach to child to ignore his/her own hunger cues. However, as Dr. Lumeng points out, "Further work is needed to determine the developmental underpinnings of this phenomenon and the limits of its effect."...Mapping the neural landscape of hunger
The compelling urge to satisfy one's hunger enlists structures throughout the brain, as might ...ded. "This distributed code acting across separate hunger phases might constitute a neural mechanism underlying meal initiation under different peripheral and...Low-glycemic index diet promotes weight loss, cardiovascular risk reduction
...lucose (sugar) and insulin levels, contributing to hunger and preventing the breakdown of fat. Joanna McMillan-Price, M.Nutr.Diet., University of Sydney, Australia, and colleagues recruited 129 obese or overweight young adults (ages 18 to 40 years) and randomly assigned them to one of four reduced-calorie...'Food insecure' Appalachians more likely to be obese, diabetic, study finds
...n households who lack access to food or experience hunger are more likely to be obese and have diabetes, according to an Ohio University study. Researcher David Holben found that subjects from households with greater levels of what medical, nutrition and dietetic professionals call "food insecurity" had a g...New mechanism explains glucose effect on wakefulness
...n glucose levels known to occur in daily cycles of hunger and eating. Their experiments showed that glucose inhibits orexin neurons by acting on a class of potassium ion channels known as "tandem pore" channels, about which little was known. "Together, these results identify an unexpected physiological role...Over 260 doctors call for ban on force-feeding and restraint chairs at Guantanamo
...l Association is a signatory. Physicians attending hunger strikers have a responsibility to respect prisoners' informed decision, even if they disagree. Those breaching the guidelines should be held to account by their professional bodies, state David Nicholl (City Hospital, Birmingham, UK) and colleagues i...World's pledge to halve hunger by 2015 looks like empty promise
...most 200 countries agreed in 1990 to cut worldwide hunger in half by 2015. That commitment is now looking li...ys. Although China has reduced its poverty levels, hunger worldwide has grown in more than half of the developing countries since 1990. In fact, the number of...Penn study reveals prevalence of night eating syndrome among people with psychiatric conditions
...ants were screened using a questionnaire to assess hunger and craving patterns, percentage of calories consumed following the evening meal, insomnia and awakenings, nocturnal food cravings and ingestions, and mood. Those who scored above cutoff on the questionnaire were then interviewed by phone and diagno...Food insecurity impairs academic development of children
...nd colleagues, published in 2002, which found that hunger and poverty in the United States are severe enough to significantly impair the academic and psychosocial development of school-age children and adolescents. Compared with food-secure children and adolescents, children from food-insecure families were...Resolved to lose weight? Social cues encourage overeating: University of Toronto study
...greater impact on our food intake than feelings of hunger or fullness, says a University of Toronto review p...hat while medical approaches continue to emphasize hunger and satiety as the root of the obesity epidemic, these two factors are usually not the most signific...