Researchers Suppress "Hunger Hormone"

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A minimally invasive procedure successfully suppressed levels of the "hunger hormone" ghrelin in pigs and led to appetite reduction results similar to bariatric surgery, say Johns Hopkins researchers.

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Stomach hormone turns hungry people into junkies

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In this paper ,the researchers point out that stomach hormone turns hungry people into junkies.When volunteers received a dose of a natural hunger-inducing hormone called ghrelin, their brains responded to pictures of food in the same way that addicted people's brains do to cigarettes or drugs, says Alain Dagher, a neurologist at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, who led the study.
And the study also tell us that hormone has its stimulant effects and Memory improvement,mood changes.

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Australian researchers find hunger switch

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Australian scientists have found how to switch hunger on and off using a molecule that targets the brain -- a discovery which could stop weight loss in terminally ill patients or produce weight loss in the morbidly obese.

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Study shows cane sugar, corn sweeteners have similar effects on appetite

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A new study of sweetened beverages shows that cane sugar and high fructose corn syrup have similar effects on hunger, fullness and food consumption at lunch. The results suggest that while appetite and food intake are influenced by the number of calories consumed earlier, the types of sugars consumed in those calories seem to make little or no difference.

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