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...Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Trouble is, it's the same pay he was earning 13 years ago. Over those years, Mitchell, 49, and his wife and three children had to make adjustments: sending her to work at an oatmeal factory, eating "a little lower on the food chain," turning the thermostat down to 55 degrees and "walking around the house like Indians in blankets." That might have been acceptable, the Mitchells say, if everyone were in the same boat. Instead--like three-fourths of Americans--their hourly pay has remained frozen even as executive salaries, corporate profits and the stock market...
...they are still trying to puzzle out just how it works. Friedman, for one, believes leptin is almost certainly a hormone that travels through the bloodstream to act on the brain. In fact, it appears leptin may act in a feedback loop like the temperature sensor in a thermostat--or in this case a "fatstat"--to tell the body whether to turn metabolism and appetite up or down. Thus when leptin is low, hunger pangs increase, body temperature drops, and metabolism slows. When leptin is high, everything reverses. In such fashion, the brain strives to keep body weight stable...
...political system is also collapsing, Westsaid. He blasted "market politicians" and"thermostat politicians" whose point of view is"'let me hear what is your opinion, rather than meshape your opinion," ' and who base their ownconvictions...
...effective, a weight-loss drug must counteract some of the body's most basic biological mechanisms. Evidence suggests that weight is controlled in much the same way that a thermostat regulates room temperature. According to this explanation, known as the set-point theory, the brain plays an importatnt role in determining a person's ideal weight, which remains more or less constant throughout adult life. Whenever a person loses weight, a portion of the brain called the hypothalamus responds by increasing the appetite and slowing the metabolism so that the body can store more fat. By contrast, when a person...
...wake up in the middle of the night. I'm not strung out. You see, I have a very strong feeling that we all have a thermostat setting on stress...