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How Your Brain Makes You Eat
Posted on 10. Oct, 2010 by Kerry D Friesen, M.D..
Why Neuropeptide Y? If you’ve been to your doctor and received a “cortisone shot”, then you have experienced first hand the profound appetite increasing properties of Neuropeptide Y. The voracious increase in appetite associated with cortisone-like medications, parallels exactly what happens when Neuropeptide Y (NPY) is released from the hypothalamus as part of the “fight [...]
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Is Food Addictive?
Posted on 26. Sep, 2010 by Kerry D Friesen, M.D..
GLOBAL OBESITY “Globesity”—it’s how the World Health Organization describes the current global obesity epidemic. Worldwide, one billion overweight people now outnumber the starving. Here in America, with sixty-six percent of adults and thirty-percent of children overweight, scientists predict that for the first time parents may outlive their children. ASK YOURSELF WHY After twenty years of [...]


