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...scientific name for this remarkable substance is PYY3-36, or PYY for short, but the researchers who discovered its new function have dubbed it, appropriately enough, the fullness hormone. "If you give it prior to a meal, it switches off the appetite," says Dr. Stephen Bloom, an endocrinologist at Hammersmith Hospital in London. "PYY is what makes you less hungry after a meal...
Either way, a lot of work remains to be done. The 12 volunteers tested by Bloom and his colleagues were all healthy and of average weight. Perhaps the same biological factors that kept their weight under control also enabled them to respond to PYY. Bloom is already trying the hormone on two more groups of volunteers--one modestly overweight and the other slightly underweight--to see if the hormone will suppress their appetites as well. "We also want to move to long-term treatment and prove that over a week, say, you're still eating less," Bloom says...
...middle class. "We were also very encouraged to see how many large Western companies had made entries in China," says Toback, "chief among them McDonald's, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and Pizza Hut." To get rich is glorious, but getting fat is just gross. Let one hundred blisters bloom...
There are some bare patches on the southern slope, and white phlox flowers are already in bloom. Bees are at work on them. The season is short here; by September the snow will start again. The window of survival is very narrow on the Lolo. It nearly slammed shut on Lewis and Clark. We add a few more rocks to the cairns and take our leave...
...generations of Marty's cinematic children who may learn to appreciate it. But should Marty undertake this third grand project of ardor and remembrance, I have a few other British artists for him to consider. Vivien Leigh ... Jean Simmons ... Joan Greenwood ... Margaret Lockwood ... Celia Johnson ... Claire Bloom ... Jessie Matthews ... Kay Kendall ... Dorothy Tutin ... Barbara Steele ... Julie Christie ... And who was that elusive beauty whose gravity anchors Carol Reed's "The Third Man"? Ah! Alida Valli...