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Scientists study body’s hunger signal
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NEW YORK (AP) — Sometime
Thursday, your brain will probably be
besieged by contradictory demands.
Your better judgment will tell you NO NO
NO. Your surroundings will tell you YES YES
YES. A nerve reaching in from your gut wall
insist NO NO NO. Signals from your mouth
will make some brain circuits cry YES YES
YES.
And in the end, your brain will make an
executive decision and probably order your
mouth to say:
“Pie? Sure, Ed love some.”
Putting on a Thanksgiving feast is compli
cated enough, but it's nothing compared to
how your body decides how much of it to eat.
Scientists have learned a lot in the past
few years about what controls appetite. In a
nation where many people eat too much,
such discoveries often hit the front pages
because they might lead to better weight-
loss drugs. This year alone brought widely
reported evidence that one natural hormone
boosts appetite and another dampens it, for
example.
Such research also sheds light on that
Thanksgiving Day war
brain.
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bow sensitive the brain is to the body
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tat. their levels go up. making iteasrjr
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