The higher the quantity of the hormone ghrelin in your blood, the more hungry you feel. But now it has also been shown that you also feel better by it when you eat. Also when you have actually eaten enough already.
Researchers at the UT Southwestern Medical Center conducted research into this hunger hormone with mice. […]
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Fatty foods won’t give you a feeling of being full very quickly. When you eat fatty foods, you will only feel more hungry.
This is the result of a study done at the University of Cincinnati. The researchers discovered that eating fatty foods increases the feeling of hunger.
By eating fatty foods the amount of the hormone […]
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People who sleep less hours often have more excess wait than people who sleep longer. This is the result of a recently done American study.
Even though people who don’t sleep a lot are very active during the day, they do gain weight faster. Hormones play a role in this according to the researchers. In people […]
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Sleeping disorders can manifest in different ways: from difficulties for falling asleep to waking up several times a night and not being able to fall asleep again, waking up way too early, sleeping restlessly, having nightmares or heavy night sweats.
Here are a couple of advices for getting a good nights sleep:
Go to bed every night […]
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Canadian scientists discovered in a research with skinny and fat mice that fat cells in the belly region produce a certain hormone. Of this hormone, called neuropeptide Y (NPY), it was assumed that it was only produced in the brain. The hormone stimulates the appetite and regulates the metabolism. The more belly fat the mice […]
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Only half a glass of soy milk already can reduce the amount of sperm cells that a man produces. This statement is made by scientists at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Nearly 100 men who went to a fertility clinic between 2000 and 2006 participated in this research. They had to tell how many soy […]
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With many men it starts in their forties. They get more forgetful, loose muscle strength, get a small belly and the sex life goes down a few notches. Is this because of a lower production of the testosterone hormone? To test this the University Medical Center Utrecht conducted an experiment. For six months a group […]
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