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New data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that while obesity rates in the United States are still sky-high, they appear to have stabilized.
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New research in mice by UT Southwestern Medical Center scientists suggests that ghrelin—the so-called hunger hormone—might work in the brain to make some people keep eating "pleasurable" foods when they’re already full.
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According to a new study published in the Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM), eating a meal quickly curtails the release of hormones in the gut that induce feelings of being full. The decreased release of these hormones can often lead to overeating.
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Shay Sorrells, a former contestant on the reality television show “The Biggest Loser,” suffers from a food addiction and was able to lose 100 pounds during her nine-week run on the show. Although she was eliminated from the show, her amazing weight loss—she lost 17 pounds during her last week on the show—set a new record for women on the show.
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Scientific evidence shows that our food intake is governed by both the need to eat for survival and the desire to eat, the latter of which is controlled by the dopamine signaling system in our brains. Dopamine controls motivation, movement, and feelings of pleasure, and it urges us to eat and lets us know that eating makes us feel good. The same thing happens in drug addiction.
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By Leslie Thompson
For millions of Americans food is simply seen as a necessity of life–you eat for energy when your body needs to refuel. However, for others eating is a compulsion; a quick fix to an underlying problem. In fact, for many there lies a deep and troubling association with food, something people can’t even imagine: addiction. Food addiction is a serious and growing problem, one that is becoming more and more prevalent each day.
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