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| k.d. lang - Constant Craving |
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kd performs her 'one hit medley' from the album
Ingenue. This is from Live By Request in 2001.
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| Bacterial food craving |
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071012/ap_on_he_me/di
et_chocolate_craving
"WASHINGTON - If that craving for chocolate
sometimes feels like it is coming from deep in
your gut, that's because maybe it is.
A small study links the type of bacteria living in
people's digestive system to a desire for
chocolate. Everyone has a vast community of
microbes in their guts. But people who crave daily
chocolate show signs of having different colonies
of bacteria than people who are immune to
chocolate's allure.
That may be the case for other foods, too. The
idea could eventually lead to treating some types
of obesity by changing the composition of the
trillions of bacteria occupying the intestines and
stomach, said Sunil Kochhar, co-author of the
study. It appears Friday in the peer-reviewed
Journal of Proteome Research.
Kochhar is in charge of metabolism research at the
Nestle Research Center in Lausanne, Switzerland.
The food conglomerate Nestle SA paid for the
study. But this isn't part of an effort to convert
a few to the dark side (or even milk) side of
cocoa, Kocchar said.
In fact, the study was delayed because it took a
year for the researchers to find 11 men who don't
eat chocolate.
Kochhar compared the blood and urine of those 11
men, who he jokingly called "weird" for their
indifference to chocolate, to 11 similar men who
ate chocolate daily. They were all healthy, not
obese, and were fed the same food for five days.
The researchers examined the byproducts of
metabolism in their blood and urine and found that
a dozen substances were significantly different
between the two groups. For example, the amino
acid glycine was higher in chocolate lovers, while
taurine (an active ingredient in energy drinks)
was higher in people who didn't eat chocolate.
Also chocolate lovers had lower levels of the bad
cholesterol, LDL.
The levels of several of the specific substances
that were different in the two groups are known to
be linked to different types of bacteria, Kochhar
said.
Still to be determined is if the bacteria cause
the craving, or if early in life people's diets
changed the bacteria, which then reinforced food
choices.
How gut bacteria affect people is a hot field of
scientific research.
Past studies have shown that intestinal bacteria
change when people lose weight, said Dr. Sam
Klein, an obesity expert and professor of medicine
at Washington University in St. Louis.
Since bacteria interact with what you eat, it is
logical to think that there is a connection
between those microbes and desires for certain
foods, said Klein, who wasn't part of Kochhar's
study.
Kochhar's research makes so much sense that people
should have thought of it earlier, said J. Bruce
German, professor of food chemistry at the
University of California Davis. While five outside
scientists thought the study was intriguing, Dr.
Richard Bergman at the University of Southern
California School of Medicine, had concerns about
the accuracy of the initial division of the men
into groups that wanted chocolate or were
indifferent to it.
What matters to Kochhar is where the research
could lead.
Kochhar said the relationship between food, people
and what grows in their gut is important for the
future: "If we understand the relationship, then
we can find ways to nudge it in the right
direction.""
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| Michael Kiske - Silently Craving (Kiske - 2006) |
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LYRICS
Artist: Michael Kiske
Album: Kiske - 2006
Song: Silently Craving
08. SILENT CRAVING
(Kiske)
The biggest fires are burning
And I will try to get back, I'm returning
You keep your head down singing
And all you get is over-pressure-craving
Let me try a word once known
Let me try a different tone
Touch me; do not drift with the flow
Silently it's creeping in
Silently with no warning
Suddenly we meet the other shore
As if we were not in there
We do forget all hell we had and sail on
But that might get us nowhere
Let's breathe it in
And turn it into nothing wrong
Let me try a word once known
Let me try a different tone
Touch me; do not drift with the flow
Silently it's creeping in
Silently with no warning
Suddenly we meet the other shore
And there's no more
And occasionally she sings
She forgets all the things
She's fighting to forget
Twisting in her head
But whatever we may do
We only will see through
Dissolving all those fears
Raising hells, build all those years
The biggest fires are burning
And I will try to get back, I'm returning
You keep your head down singing
And all you get is over-pressure-craving
Let me try a word once known
Let me try a different tone
Touch me; do not drift with the flow
Silently it's creeping in
Silently with no warning
Suddenly we meet the other shore
And there's no more - to try!
Tags : Michael Kiske 2006 Silently Craving power metal helloween |
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