Fat Tuesday: Hungry for love
AGRP neurons in the hypothalamus evoke eating by suppressing oxytocin neurons. Oxytocin is known as the “love hormone”, and so this brings a whole new meaning to the term “comfort food” since the new study result suggests that you can only feel truly touchy feely when your hunger is sated.
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How Corn Syrup Might Be Making Us Hungry–and Fat
January 1st, 2013 |
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Grocery store aisles are awash in foods and beverages that contain high-fructose corn syrup. It is common in sodas and crops up in everything from ketchup to snack bars. This cheap sweetener has been an increasingly popular additive in recent decades and has often been fingered as a driver of the obesity epidemic. These fears [...]
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Global High Fructose Corn Syrup Use May Be Fueling Diabetes Increase
November 27th, 2012 |
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It doesn’t matter where you look: the U.S., Mexico, Malaysia or Portugal, the more high fructose corn syrup consumption, on average, the more diabetes. A new study of 43 countries in Global Public Health, published online November 27, found that adult type-2 diabetes is 20 percent higher in countries that consume large quantities of high [...]
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