{"id":913,"date":"2004-06-29T03:10:37","date_gmt":"2004-06-29T03:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=913"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:32:43","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:32:43","slug":"weight-control-obese-lack-spike-of-hunger-hormone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=913","title":{"rendered":"weight control: obese lack spike of hunger hormone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Researchers studying hormones associated with food  intake and metabolism have discovered a hitherto unknown biological  feature of obesity. Julio Licinio of the University of California at Los  Angeles and colleagues have found that obese people lack a normal  nighttime spike of ghrelin, a hormone that promotes hunger. Levels of  ghrelin in the blood show regular patterns in a 24-hour cycle &#8212;  normally increasing before meals, and decreasing after eating. In this  week&#8217;s <em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Online Early  Edition,<\/em> the researchers report studying five obese and five lean young  men, collecting samples of their blood every seven  minutes over 24  hours. They found that the lean men had a surge of ghrelin between  midnight and 6 a.m. &#8212; when they were sleeping and so didn&#8217;t eat. The  obese subjects had higher ghrelin levels when they were awake and  capable of eating, and had no hormone surge during the night. The  authors said they hope their finding might point out new directions for  treating obesity. <\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Discoveries column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 6\/29\/2004.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers studying hormones associated with food intake and metabolism have discovered a hitherto unknown biological feature of obesity. Julio Licinio of the University of California at Los Angeles and colleagues have found that obese people lack a normal nighttime spike &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=913\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":915,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions\/915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}