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Welcome Back Students!
Introducing Italian Cafe. We serve pasta, pizza,
soup, salad, wine and beer. Come experience our
Romanesque atmosphere on our open garden patio with
columns, a waterfall fountain and music. We come from
over 40 years of business in Houston receiving many
awards including Marvin Zindler’s Top 50 Restaurant list.
We pride ourselves in the quality of our food. Come taste
what old Italy was all about as our food is made fresh in
house daily. We are also introducing a new concept to our
customers in the United States, the Frittella, a deep fried
pizza eaten from a paper bag squeezing from the bottom up
as some of you may have experienced seeing on the streets
of Italy. In Italy, the Frittella is sold with cheese and sauce
only, but for our US customers we gladly offer ham or
Italian sausage to be added.
3901 S. Texas Ave.
(1/2 mile north of University Dr.)
260-6666
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By Stephanie Nano
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Hormone curbs appetite by 30 percer
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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
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"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 '
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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.
The rules were challer?
in court by the Prometh
Radio Project, a Philadelp'
based coalition of me
access groups that a'
paigns for greater ra:
access and helps grc.
seeking to establish b
power radio stations.
‘‘Given the magnitude ofr
matter and the public's ir
est in reaching the pro:’
resolution, a stay is warrar' :
pending thorough and e*
cient judicial review," a
judge panel of the app#
court wrote in its brief of
ion. The judges did not of
ment on the merits of
complaint.
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