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ADMINISTRATION: Donald Sweet, Alan J. Abrams, Denise Brown, Anne M. Considine, Tosca LaBoy, Katharine K. McNevin, Teresa D. Sedlak, Deborah R. Slater, Rafael Soto...
Recent quitters frequently feel an almost uncontrollable urge to gorge on sugary, high-carbohydrate foods. This too is probably due to the powerful influence of nicotine. In smokers, the drug lowers the level of insulin in the bloodstream, which in turn decreases the craving for sweet-tasting food. Grunberg has shown in laboratory animals that removing nicotine causes insulin levels to rise, prompting greater consumption of sweets. This sweet-tooth effect is far more pronounced in female animals than in males, which may explain the difference found between the two sexes in the CDC study. But researchers are baffled...
...Health reported that more than twice as many adolescent girls as boys said they were worried about gaining weight if they quit smoking. In years past, cigarette companies capitalized on such fears. Lucky Strike ads in the 1920s encouraged women to "Reach for the Lucky Strike Instead of a Sweet." Unfortunately, doctors note, even modest weight gains can loom large for women: a gain of 8 lbs., for instance, can translate into a different dress size; for men it may only mean letting the belt out a notch...
ADMINISTRATION: Donald Sweet, Alan J. Abrams, Denise Brown, Anne M. Considine, Tosca LaBoy, Katharine K. McNevin, Teresa D. Sedlak, Deborah R. Slater, Rafael Soto...
...American mind may have sought out an innocent analogy: George Bush had -- unexpectedly, miraculously -- found the sweet spot. He and his men (Powell, Schwarzkopf, Scowcroft) had performed a miracle of American concentration and grace under pressure, after years when those seemed almost archaic American talents. Now Bush was rounding the bases while the baseball he hit was still rising in the air and might yet -- who knows? -- go into some orbit of higher historical meaning...