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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