Word: insulin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shows that when their diet is monotonous, rats eat only what they need, but overeat and become fat when fed a different flavor every 30 minutes. At the conference, he reported that the taste and smell of the food encouraged hunger and obesity by causing a reflexive increase in insulin. Le Magnen also reported evidence, in both rats and humans, that each new tasty food produces a conditioned insulin release. In other words, even if a varied meal and a one-food meal are equal in size and good taste, the varied meal may prove more fattening because it increases...
Biotechnology--the commercial use of biological processes, including genetic engineering--has received a great deal of attention from the scientific community as a potential source of medical and industrial advancements. By "splicing" and rearranging genes, researchers believe they may someday produce such crucial substances as insulin and interferon, as well as the means to accelerate food and energy production. One laboratory has already announced that it has found a vaccine for hoof-and-mouth disease, the deadly ailment that afflicts cattle...
Across the Bay Bridge in South San Francisco, Genentech is in the midst of a $20 million expansion. The firm's gene-spliced insulin, which is thought less likely to produce an allergic reaction in some diabetics than the animal insulin usually used, is now in the final phase of certification by the Food and Drug Adminstration. It could be put on the market perhaps by late 1982. But Genentech is .rying to iron out some difficult problems with the human growth hormone used to treat dwarfs. Patients at Stanford University's hospital a few weeks ago developed...
...White House, two Viet veterans' groups continued a sit-in and a hunger strike at the Veterans Administration Wadsworth Medical Center in Los Angeles, a city that has become the focus of veteran activism. One of the 16 hunger strikers, a diabetic, had collapsed after refusing food and insulin for four days, and four others have quit. But, vows Hunger Striker Kenneth Van Glen: "We're going to stay out as long as it takes...
...recent years coffee has been tentatively tied to various afflictions, including diabetes, heart attack, and cancer of the colon, urinary tract and stomach. Last week Harvard University researchers announced a statistical link between coffee and cancer of the pancreas. The pancreas produces enzymes vital to digestion and the hormone insulin for sugar metabolism. Pancreatic cancer claims 22,000 lives a year. It is the fifth largest cause of cancer death in the U.S., behind cancer of the lungs, colon, breast and prostate. It is also virtually incurable; fewer than 2% of patients survive five years after diagnosis...