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Medha Patkar's Condition Deteriorates Further

...lth of environmental activist Medha Patkar - whose hunger strike to protest against the raising of the Narma...s fluctuating. Patkar has been on an indefinite hunger strike since March 29 to protest the raising of the Sardar Sarovar dam's height from 110 metres to 1...

Organ Donation Crusader Passes Away

...he organ there. She threatened to go on indefinite hunger fast on the issue in front of the state assembly, till in till she received a high level assurance that the matter would be looked into. Forming the first ever “Liver Patient Support Group’ in India she appeared in front of the Human Rights Commiss...

Bio-Technology Initiatives to Feed Research On Sorghum Crop

...uld indeed be a boon to the prevailing problems of hunger and malnutrition in Africa. Luke Mehlo, a molecular biotechnologist who came to Iowa from South Africa, and is keenly involved with the team of African scientists said “A lot of people have died on the African continent, quite unnecessarily. We seek...

Anorexia - Overcoming Hunger Pangs Isn’t Just About Will Powe

...as for the first time proved that overcoming those hunger pangs and avoiding food isn’t just about extraordinary will power alone. The neurotransmitter is known to be neuropeptide Y (NPY). The oversupply of NPY makes it hard for obese people to lose weight. In anorexia, there is a lack of NPY that disrupt...

Medical Ethics Violated By Prison Officials In Guantanamo Bay

...namo Bay to force feed the prisoners (currently on hunger strike) through insertion of feeding tubes // thro...id to be retained without appropriate charges. The hunger strike is said to be a representation of the detainee's protest against their imprisonment rather th...

Eating Contaminated Food Leads To Cholera Outbreak In Malawi

...ers who are forced to eat contaminated food out of hunger and desperation. // The Mangochi resort district and Blantyre (commercial hub of Eastern Africa) are the worst affected. The drought that occurred previous year and the subsequent food shortage has been accounted for the situation now prevalent in...

Want to memorise better for the exams: stay hungry!!!

... you readers but if new research is to be believed hunger can help with the creation and retrieval of memori... comes from American scientists who found that the hunger hormone ghrelin can help in memory retention. The mechanism is by way of an increase the number of n...

Students Seek Help From Prisoners for Kidnapped Child's Release

... prayers, forming human chains and staging a relay hunger strike seeking the student's release from the clutches of the abductors. They took out a march Friday to Hartali chowk and blocked the busy roads in the town. Later, a memorandum was submitted to top government officials....

Measles Break Out In Relief Camps

...ave warned of a second wave of deaths due to cold, hunger and diseases as they find it hard to reach quake survivors with relief goods and shelter in the face of lack of funds and logistics difficulties. The UN has been appealing to the international community for more funding as it says around 400,000 qua...

Leptin Injections Maintain Loss In Body Weight

...ments were done with different hormones related to hunger metabolism and weight (neuropeptide Y and ghrelin)...ing metabolism rates for short periods or suppress hunger but these practices are harmful. The best way to reduce obesity is to naturally alter the metabolism...

India Needs To Pay More Attention To Detecting Cancer

...t's the best way to break the cycle of ill health, hunger and poverty,' said McGilligan. Speaking about cancer risk and its prevention in post-menopausal women, Daniela Vecchio, an expert from Italy's National Cancer Research Institute said: 'With post-menopausal life expectancy at around 33 years, ensurin...

Scientists Discover Hormone That Controls Hunger

...in the US have discovered a hormone that regulates hunger and may help to fully control appetite in the futu...Bloom said it added to other discoveries about how hunger is regulated. "We should be able to control appetite within five to 10 years." But the fact that a...

38 million Americans including 14 million children left to combat hunger

...thority on domestic hunger. 'This chronic level of hunger so long after the recession ended means that it is...der to get this epidemic under control.' Rates of hunger increased in almost every single category of household during the same time, with single mothers and...

Genetically modified rice faces strong protests in Asia

...rward for sustainable agriculture and solution for hunger is through the protection and use of biodiversity rather than genetic engineering." Bangladesh: Palash Baral from the Dhaka-based UBINIG (Unnayan Bikalper Nitinirdharoni Gobeshona) said, "Bangladesh farmers have a long tradition of maintaining l...

New Diet Sensation Insists That Carbs Are Good For Health

...r so many people, and it prevents the cravings and hunger that lead to diet failure, said the editor of the publication that is publishing the diet program. Raz has already guided thousands of people in Israel to successful weight loss through the “It’s All in You Head” weight loss program at Tel Aviv Sour...

Brain Chemical Identified For Drug Dependent Behavior

...lateral hypothalamus is referred to as the brain’s hunger center. Researchers had found that the more animals seek out cues associated with food or drug reward, the more activated the neurons become. In rats that had their drug-seeking behavior extinguished, the preference for drug-associated cues was rei...

Finding The Key To Weight Loss!

... hormone responsible for satiety) and ghrelin (the hunger hormone). Researchers say they found that satiety was 'markedly increased' with the isocaloric diet but leptin was unchanged. With the ad libitum high protein diet, the participants average spontaneous calorie intake decreased by between 376 and 50...

Sleep cycles may be related to metabolism

...e to find out that circadian clock controls sleep, hunger and other biological processes from the brain structure of thalamus. There also been an association between disrupted sleep patterns to weight gain, diabetes and metabolic disturbance. The new study researchers have found out that reduced levels of t...

Understanding The Link Between Hunger and Taste

According to a recent study researchers say hunger may be associated with an increased ability to tas...he sugar and salt in the drinks. However, they say hunger did not influence the participants’ ability to recognize bitter tastes. Researchers say, instinctive...

The Reason For Loss Of Appetite After Gastric Bypass

...y might have a partial explanation for the loss of hunger and rapid weight loss observed after gastric bypas...ing. This implies ghrelin is a principal signal of hunger and meal initiation. Researchers say they found ghrelin levels were not significantly changed in se...

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