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Compulsive eating shares addictive biochemical mechanism with cocaine, heroin abuse: study

In a newly published study, scientists from The Scripps Research Institute have shown for the first time that the same molecular mechanisms that drive people into drug addiction are behind the compulsion to overeat, pushing ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 28, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Smart phones offer users a way to ditch pricey voice plans

Your monthly cell phone bill is way too expensive. No, it's not the fees or taxes or even text messages that are leaching your wallet. It's your voice plan.

Technology / Telecom

created Mar 17, 2010 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (9) | comments 1

Diet and exercise restore immune function in obesity

(PhysOrg.com) -- Boston University scientists say that moderate daily exercise and dietary control might reverse immune dysfunctions found in people with obesity.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Apple backs VoIP calls over 3G networks for iPhone

(AP) -- Apple Inc. is allowing iPhone owners to use Internet calling services over cellular networks.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jan 29, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Wiretapping Skype calls: virus eavesdrops on VoIP

(AP) -- Some computer viruses have a crude but scary ability to spy on people by logging every keystroke they type. Now hackers and potentially law enforcement have another weapon: a virus that can eavesdrop on voice conversations ...

Technology / Internet

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Overactive FTO gene does cause overeating and obesity

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have gained strong confirmation of the direct connection between the FTO gene and obesity, obtaining the first direct evidence that overactivity of the gene leads to overeating ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Nov 15, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Chocolate, water reduce pain response to heat

People often eat food to feel better, but researchers have found that eating chocolate or drinking water can blunt pain, reducing a rat's response to a hot stimulus. This natural form of pain relief may help ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Study Shows Thousands of Consumer Internet Connectivity Devices Are Vulnerable to Attack

(PhysOrg.com) -- Following news reports that 65,000 modems and wireless routers used by Time Warner Cable customers are vulnerable to attack by hackers, a Columbia University expert on computer security and ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A researcher answers the weight gain question

We eat too much, and it's making us fat and sick. So why don't we stop?

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 18, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Egypt bans international Internet voice calls

Egypt has banned international calls made through mobile Internet connections, one of Egypt's top three mobile phone operators said on Tuesday, which would include internet Skype calls.

Technology / Telecom

created Mar 23, 2010 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Mayo Clinic finds upper, lower body gain weight differently

Using ice cream, candy bars and energy drinks to help volunteers gain weight, Mayo Clinic researchers have discovered the mechanisms of how body fat grows. Increased abdominal fat seems to heighten risk for metabolic disease, ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Oct 04, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Phones have TV signals, TVs have Internet feeds, computers have a bit of everything

"Convergence" is too bulky a word to do justice to all the pretty gadgets on display at the Consumer Electronics Show, or to describe how they are increasingly doing more to give consumers the content and connectivity wherever ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jan 14, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Gadgets: Chinon docking sound system has LCD display for video

I've had the Chinon AVi sitting on my shelf for a few months and I'm glad I finally got to it.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Apr 01, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Signing contracts on the telephone

Internet telephony has developed from a niche product into standard technology in recent years. Most telephone providers switched their background technology to Voice over IP, or VoIP for short, long ago. BITKOM, the German ...

Technology / Software

created Jan 27, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Guiltless gluttony: Misleading size labels lead to overeating

People are easily fooled when it comes to food labels, and will eat more of something if they believe it's a "small" portion, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 15, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Overeating

Overeating generally refers to the long-term consumption of excess food in relation to the energy that an organism expends (or expels via excretion), leading to weight gaining and often obesity. It may be regarded as an eating disorder.

This term may also be used to refer to specific episodes of over-consumption. For example, many people overeat during festivities or while on holiday.

Overeating can sometimes be a symptom of binge eating disorder or bulimia.

In a broader sense, hyperalimentation includes excessive food administration through other means than eating, e.g. through parenteral nutrition.

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