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Expires 9.15.03 Better Ingredients • Better Pizza Thursday Special 1 LARGE, 2-Topping n anil 9 litpr drink wL C LJL 10A Thursday, September 4, 2003 SCT-TEL ' THE H.VITALII Researchers identify a new SIX' hormone that curbs hunge By Stephanie Nano THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Hormone curbs appetite by 30 percer MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY 1 LARGE 1-TOPPING $C 99 • pu/only 2 LARGE 1-TOPPING $12" ■ pu/delivery 1 EX-LARGE 1 1 LARGE 1 PICK , Y °v" SIDE 2-TOPPING STOPPING _ A & 2 llter dnnk and l SIDE $ I0. 50 $11" $17 78 ^ * pu/delivery | | | • pu/delivery | 1 Jim* pu/delivery FAMILY SPECIAL 1 LARGE SPECIALTY 1 LARGE 2 TOPPING $ I6. 99 ANY LARGE SPECIALTY $ ll. 99 Northgate 601 University Dr. 979-846-3600 Post Oak Square Center 100 Harvey Rd., Suite D 979-764-7272 Rock Prairie 1700 Rock Prairie 979-680-0508 OPEN LATE Sunday: 1 1 a.nra. - midnight Monday - Wednesday: 1 1 a.m. - 1 a.m. Thursday: 11 a.m. - 2 a.m. Friday & Saturday: 1 1 a.m. - 3 a.m. OPEN LATE Giving overweight people an extra dose of a hormone that tells the brain when to stop eating appears to curb their appetites by nearly a third, pointing to a potential new treatment for obesity. The researchers at Imperial College London had previously shown that the hormone could sup press the appetites of lean people. But they wor ried it would not work in obese people because studies of another appetite-suppressing hormone, leptin, had proved disappointing. “We had to do a second trial to see if obese people were as sensitive to the hormone” said researcher Dr. Stephen R. Bloom. The answer: “Yes, they are. They're just as sensitive as thin people.” In the small study, obese and lean people ate about 30 percent less from a buffet lunch after they were given a dose of the hormone, PYY3-36, to trick the brain into thinking they had already eaten. The research also showed lower natural lev els of PYY in the obese, which may explain why they are hungrier and overeat. Bloom said. The findings are published in Thursday’s New England Journal of Medicine. Bloom said long-term use of the hormone would have to be studied before it could be devel oped into a treatment for obesity that would con sist of injections given before meals. “We haven’t yet shown you get actual weight reduction. We've only shown you eat less.” Bloom said. The findings could also point to a more natural treatment for obesity: Bloom said a high-fiber diet is believed to boost the body’s production of PYY. The PYY hormone, one of a number of hor mones that stimulate or suppress hunger, is released by the gut as you eat. It tells the part of the brain that controls appetite when you are full. Sixty percent of Americans are obese or over weight, and obesity contributes to about 3(K),(KX) deaths a year, according to government estimates. The research is “a hopeful step in the right direction,” said obesity researcher Dr. David E. Cummings of the University of Washington in Seattle. “But there’s a fairly large difference between reducing food intake for one meal and actual weight loss.” Dr. Rudolph L. Leibel, an obesity researcher at Columbia University in New York, said it is In a recent study, bolti lean and fewer calories at a buffet lunch curbing hormone PYY 3-36 Placebo SOURCE N*« England Jounvl of Mwkon* unlikely that PYY alone w ill turn out lo be “magic bullei” against o besity, but ii may [t useful in combination wl ith other drugs. He. I he body has backup systi ems dial kick in Km the loss of body fat — ihi ? reason so many pe« who lose weight gain ii b ack. "We can’t fool Mother Nature yet,’’ heui Currently, there are only a few prcicnp? weight-control drugs, and they produce only or est weight loss. They work by suppression appetite through a brain chemical or by bkee fat from being absorbed. The British researchers recruited 24 peoK obese and 12 lean. Their food consumption monitored twice, once after an intravenous i- of synthetic PYY and once after getting ate less saline solution. Two hours later, they >* given a large buffet lunch. After the PYY dose, the obese ate 30 fewer calories than they did after the dummy lion. The lean people ate 31 percent tea.! PYY continued to curb their appetites ft* hours, with the obese eating 26 percent lo the lean eating about 34 percent less, ba«: food diaries they kept. The PYY did not affect food consult^, from 12 hours to 24 hours after the infusion Without the extra dose. PYY levels werckv in the obese participants than in the lean, te: researchers said it is not known whether thai cause of obesity or a consequence. "If it’s a consequence of obesity, it m explain why once people become overweights very difficult for them to reverse it.” Bloomu “They don’t feel as feel as full after food as w mal people do as a result of their obesity ' HOUSTOf leople died ar ladly injured fc'ay driver 1 si ort-utility v pest of Housti The ac< lappened Tu light on pighway 290 lueschke ut 10 p.m. I “We may e laving as ma ■even or eight liis thing be I'e’ve got so lids involved, Harris C Iheriff’s Lt. Henholm. I Denholm Itere were Ihildren in lUV along Hone of th< Kstrained, he I “When we ■card up off tl an infant on th You hi and a which i a brick wall.” | A police o Reginald Dw ■living an Old l , ay on 290 ar l> get Mayes n lie crash occui hii imam un laid. “You Inph) and Inph), whit Mother I HOUSTON fcur counts of children in a f I The childre police found took them in Wednesday € , Their mothe Tuesday even The landlad and told polict Inside the u a 1 1/2-year-o bedroom whe vent them fror NEWS IN BRIEF Appeals court halts new FCC guidelines PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A federal appeals court Wednesday issued an emer gency stay delaying new Federal Communications Commission rules that would allow a single company to own newspapers and broad cast outlets in the same city. The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the community- radio advocates who sued would suffer irreparable harm if the new rules were allowed to go into effect as scheduled Thursday. The new media ownership rules, which the FCC approved in June on a party-line, 3-2 vote, also would allow a single compa ny to own TV stations reach ing 45 percent of the nation’s viewers. Smaller broadcasters and network affiliates are con cerned the new rules will allow the networks to gobble up more stations and limit local control of programming. Supporters say the changes will help broadcasters com pete in a market changed by cable television, satellite broadcasts and the Internet. The House, over the objec tions of the Bush administra tion, voted overwhelmingly in July to block the FCC rules. The Senate plans to take up the issue next week. 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