I'm dreaming right along with you Jan.  ;)

At 01:45 PM 10/22/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>In a message dated 10/22/2002 12:24:26 PM Central Daylight Time,
>[log in to unmask] writes:
>
> > of Ghrelin, (often
> > misspelled gherlin) a hunger hormone.  People secreting abnormally lots
> > of it, like Prader-Willy Syndrome kids and adults, are ravenously hungry
> > all the time.  It is produced to varying degrees in different people and
> > does not secrete when on a fast or by the part of a stapled stomach
> > receiving no food.
>
>OK, what I want -- now, of course --  is something that will keep Ghrelin at
>low levels in MY body.  I'd like that something to look, feel & taste like a
>potato chip, but barring that, I'll settle for a piece of good Swiss
>chocolate.  Wouldn't that be lovely?  For all us overweight folk, we could
>just have a piece of chocolate three times a day and our Ghrelin levels would
>drop.  While we are at it, perhaps it could cause us to crave steamed
>broccoli and carrots rather than said potato chips.....
>
>Jan -- dreaming in Wheaton
>
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