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As if all that weren't complicated enough, the body must also regulate its food intake and manage its weight over time. "There are short-term signals and long-term signals," says Judith Korner, an endocrinologist at Columbia University in New York City. "Some signals are both short term and...
Any attempt to change that is likely to run into resistance from some powerful business groups: advertisers, food companies and broadcasters. Banning certain types of ads, they argue, would amount to censorship. Besides, "if you don't have children's advertising, there won't be children's programs," says Dan...
Doctors used to joke that the best way to combat obesity was to build up your biceps ... in order to push yourself away from the table. Then came the discovery in 1995 of genes that regulate leptin, the hormone that controls how much fat your body stores. Since then, scientists...
According to Wier, the Bush Administration will soon announce a consolidation of several programs within the Energy Department to better regulate and secure research reactors here and around the world, while the Senate has recently approved a set of incentives to promote these measures.
Dave Rosgen, his smile shaded from the midday sun by the brim of his cowboy hat, moves easily along a branch of the main channel of Colorado's Blue River, casting his fly rod. One after another, big rainbow trout take his flies, jumping and fighting the line until he...