Over the past few years, food prices have gone up nearly two-fold, and experts have been scrambling to explain the phenomenon. In a new analysis, they managed to identify the factors that led to this situation. Starvation is now running rampant all over the world. Scientists agree that global warming, diminishing wat... |
6 June 2011
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A group of investigators from the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium announces that consuming small amounts of bitter drinks before sitting down to eat may be a good strategy for better assimilating foods. It would appear that bitterness is responsible for boosting the production of hunger hormones. Stimulating... |
19 January 2011
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Babies exposed to hunger while in the uterus, face an elevated risk of high blood sugar levels in later life, confirmed Wageningen University and Chinese researchers.The team of scientists gathered data of nearly eight thousand Chinese individuals, who were exposed to food restrictions between 1951 and 1961.The Wagen... |
5 November 2010
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Millions of people around the world will be at risk of losing access to even basic crops such as rice in the near future, if the planet's warming trend is not immediately curved. The conclusion belongs to a report drawn out by a team of international experts. Rice is the most important food source in the world a... |
10 August 2010
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One of the hallmarks of capitalism is something proponents like to call a “free market.” Basically, this means that the market regulates itself based on supply and demand, and this approach to conducting business is usually cited as the most appropriate for most cases. However, it is extremely unfair, esp... |
16 February 2010
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Zimbabwe has been affected by a number of very difficult problems over the years, which seem to have increased in intensity recently. Faced with a cholera outbreak and a rate of unemployment of more than 90 percent, the starving population of the African country is now turning its attention to the nation's famou... |
15 April 2009
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Conventional weight-loss diets usually tell us that spicy food - or food that's too strongly flavored in any case - should be avoided at all costs if we're trying to reach a healthy target weight, since they irritate the stomach and the lining of the intestines and cause our bodies a lot of problems. Howeve... |
17 June 2008
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This gut-released hormone has already been called "the hunger hormone" but what we must know about it is that ghrelin not only increases appetite, it also makes you perceive food as more appealing, as signaled by a new research published in the Cell Metabolism journal. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of ... |
7 May 2008
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Bad news. Having a big belly seems to mean that you'll have an even bigger one. A new research published in the FASEB Journal and carried out by a team led by Dr. Kaiping Yang at the Lawson Health Research Institute affiliated with the University of Western Ontario shows that abdominal fat tissue synthesizes a h... |
17 April 2008
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The World Food Program (WFP) launched yesterday a contest for "edgy 30 or 60 second video(s) that will make the online community buzz about global hunger." The main targets of this campaign are the raising of the awareness level of the so-called "YouTube generation" in connection to world hunger and deliver the reali... |
22 November 2007
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Lazy bone individuals are slimmer. It is known that people sleeping less are prone to be overweight or obese. But a new research published in the journal Genes and Development has also revealed how orexin, a hormone controlling sleep and hunger, works: it activates a protein, named HIF-1, previously known for its rol... |
15 November 2007
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The obsession of these 'living skeletons' for not gaining weight and the relentless pursuit of thinness may seem funny. But anorexia nervosa can lead to death in 10 % of the cases, besides the severe illnesses, due to the emaciation. Anorexia usually installs in adolescence, but it also appear throughout ... |
26 September 2007
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This is a deadly mental cocktail: while media presents you only models with perfect bodies, obesity is rampant all around you. In US 33 % of the population is obese and 70 % overweight and the numbers are growing in other western countries, too. By now, no magic solution has been found: all imply bitter sufferance, f... |
7 June 2007
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