Word: suppressant
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...would have thought long meetings about the economy could be so entertaining? During the past year, as the Bush Administration has wrestled with how to handle the downturn, the leaders of its economic team have often bickered so openly that aides have found themselves struggling to suppress snickers. Bush's top economic adviser, Larry Lindsey, and Glenn Hubbard, chairman of his Council of Economic Advisers, don't just tug at each other over whether or how to combat the slide in the stock market. They like a good roll in the dirt over such issues as the definition...
...defense has filed a motion to suppress some of the evidence in that case,” said Emily J. LaGrassa, a spokesperson for the Middlesex County district attorney’s office...
...with wild eyes, clad in a blood-smeared yellow tracksuit, brandishes her Samurai sword, preparing to dispatch three more victims. She grits her teeth. The yakuza scowl back. As sword meets flesh and the three villains slam backwards through a wooden lattice, the mastermind behind the mayhem can't suppress a smile. "Pow!" exults an elated Quentin Tarantino, bounding from his perch beside the camera to congratulate Uma Thurman, the killer blonde, on a beautifully executed fight scene. "Very, very cool...
...these biological traffic lights work in a very short time frame, affecting when you start and stop a meal. Some, like leptin, work over the longer term by helping the brain monitor how much fatty tissue the body has stored. PYY is a medium-term signal; it seems to suppress your appetite between meals, presumably so you can get some work done before you start eating again. What complicates things is that these signals are interconnected; if the level of one hormone falls or rises long enough, the whole system will shift until the hormones fall back to their original...
...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. He is looking into the possibility that certain foods, particularly those high in fiber, may increase the level of PYY in the body...