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Santa is Coming to Town and You Better Beware of His Gifts: Fat Gain, Muscle Loss and Increased Mortality Rates.

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Image 1: The "modern" image of the Coke-drinking Santa. Do you really believe he is one of the good guys? Finally, December 24th is there! The day we have all been waiting for, to get together with friends and relatives and wait for the portly, joyous, white-bearded man in the red coat to deliver "his" gifts. Interestingly enough, the word "gift" in German designates "poison" and while those of you who have been following the SuppVersity news earlier this week may now be speculating that this could in one way or another be related to the millions of iPhones Santa is going to be dropping down the chimneys in the night to come (cf. Mobile Contraception ), it seems unlikely that the electromagnetic radiation from the gadgetry could explain the statistically significant +4.65% increase in cardiac and a + 4.99% increase in non-cardiac deaths during the holiday season. After all, the data based on which David P. Phillips, Jason R. Jarvinen, Ian S....
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Starving Yourself Makes You Fat, Regardless of Whether You Overeat Or Not. Study Finds Obesity Promoting Effects of Ghrelin Unrelated to Orexia.

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Image 1: Starving + indulgence, even without over-indulgence, leads to obesity. (Image from Hieronymus Bosch 's The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things ) Do you know that grumbling? This strange feeling you get, when you are "running on empty" - not the appetite or desire you feel when you pass by the ice cream parlor. I am talking about hunger, real physiological hunger , the one where you start towards your fridge and, regardless of what is in there, stuff it down your pie-hole. This ravenous desire for food is the direct psycho-physiological response to surges of the "hunger-hormone" ghrelin. So, if high ghrelin levels make you eat everything that cannot escape fast enough, it seems quite obvious that this would be the underlying reason for obesity in rats injected with exogenous ghrelin. This, however, was not the case in a recently conducted study by Perez-Tilve et al. from the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Cincinna...
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