Anorexia nervosa is an intriguing illness: the fact that it affects mainly attractive, intelligent young women, the wilful starvation, the near delusional insistence that they look just right, the intensive fear of becoming fat, the obsession with food and cooking, the perfectionist attitude, the secretiveness, and then the periodic gorging and vomiting. It has inspired a large number of public...

Anorexia nervosa is an intriguing illness: the fact that it affects mainly attractive, intelligent young women, the wilful starvation, the near delusional insistence that they look just right, the intensive fear of becoming fat, the obsession with food and cooking, the perfectionist attitude, the secretiveness, and then the periodic gorging and vomiting. It has inspired a large number of public...

Abstract Marine predatory fish face unpredictable prey environments, ranging from abundance to scarcity of food. Dimensioning their assimilative system accommodate gorging and fasting is therefore a central life history choice. Assimilative capacity experiments typically operate with sustained feeding satiation, ignore the fluctuations in natural opportunities. A more relevant description adapt...

I. Six healthy young women residing in a metabolic unit, but continuing their normal activities, received a uniform diet for 27 days, subdivided into four periods of 6 days and a final collection period of 3 days. 2. The daily food was divided into equal-sized portions ; the subjects ate their daily quota as three meals a day in periods I , 3 , and 5 (control), two meals in period z (gorging), ...

The potentially serious complications of paraoesophageal hiatus hernias are known but its counterpart the sliding hernia, is thought to be more benign in nature. We describe a 72 year old female admitted with epigastric pain after gorging on her Christmas meal, who proved a diagnostic difficulty for both the medical and surgical registrars and was found to have a perforated incarcerated sliding...

Objective Despite numerous reports on the effects of meal frequency on biochemical parameters such as plasma lipid profile, glucose and insulin, there is almost no study to investigate the influence of meal frequency on immune system. In the present article, for the first time, the effect of meal frequency on complement components C3 and C4, as key components of the complement system, has been...

Rhodnius prolixus , a major vector of Chagas disease, may be considered the model upon which foundations insect physiology and biochemistry were built. It is an obligate blood feeder in meal triggers growth, development reproduction. The also post-prandial diuresis to maintain osmotic homeostasis. In R. as with other insects, Malpighian tubules play critical role this diuresis, much has been le...