Feature Gluttony

Attraction to orange: sexiness, not gluttony.

View larger version: In this page In a new window (A) Four-week-old testosteronetreated fry. (B) Four-week-old nontreated fry. (C) Six-week-old testosterone-treated fry. (D) Six-week-old nontreated fry. (E) Three-month-old testosteronetreated adults (one female is indicated by an arrow). (F) Three-month-old nontreated adults (one female is indicated by an arrow). Science www.sciencemag.org Scie...

Fat, Gluttony and Sloth: Obesity in Literature, Art and Medicine

The co-authors of this volume are David Haslam, the Chair and Clinical Director of the National Obesity Forum and Fiona Haslam, a former physician, art historian, and the author of a distinguished study of From Hogarth to Rowlandson: Medicine and Art in Eighteenth-Century Britain.(1) This summarizes both the strength and the weakness of this comprehensive study of the representation – and the r...

Sex, drugs and gluttony: how the brain controls motivated behaviors.

Bart Hoebel has forged a view of an integrated neural network that mediates both natural rewards and drug use. He pioneered the use of microdialysis, and also effectively used electrical stimulation, lesions, microinjections, and immunohistochemistry. He found that feeding, stimulant drug administration, and electrical stimulation of the lateral hypothalamus (LH) all increased dopamine (DA) rel...

Gluttony in the ICU: is it really a deadly sin?

Stomachs: does the size matter? Aspects of intestinal satiety, gastric satiety, hunger and gluttony

Many surgeons and most laypeople think that there is a strict correlation between the size of the stomach and the size of the meals. The term ‘‘stomach reduction’’ became a synonym for weight loss surgeries, as if by reducing the stomach, all meals would automatically be small. However, there is no strict correlation between the size of this organ and the size of meals. Some morbidly obese pati...