Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms: News and Research on Hyperphagia

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Health

Ice baths could be making you eat more, study finds

Ice baths and other cold-water plunges can help your body to burn more calories, but a new study published in Physiology & Behavior by researchers at Coventry University has found that it could actually make you eat more ...

Medications

A drug for extreme hunger offers clues to obesity's complexity

Ali Foley Shenk still remembers the panic when her 10-year-old son, Dean, finished a 20-ounce box of raisins in the seconds the cupboard was left unlocked. They rushed to the emergency room, fearing a dangerous bowel impaction.

Overweight & Obesity

Not eating can hinder weight loss, study in fruit flies suggests

In behavioral experiments using the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, a research team at the University of Cologne's Institute of Zoology studied the control of food intake in the brain. Similar to humans, molecules similar ...

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