OT: Midnight snacker?
Question:
>From: orpheus >Yeah, me too…that’s why the article caught my attention. >As I stand in front of the fridge tonight, remembering the article, >I’ll probably get stressed.
What are you wearing?
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On Mon, 04 Mar 2002 22:56:52 -0600, orpheus <orpheus2001.Delete.T…@ziplip.com> wrote: >On 05 Mar 2002 04:34:24 GMT, jadelee111…@aol.com (Jadelee111512) >wrote: >>What are you wearing? >depends
You’re having some of those bladder problems??? Sorry to hear that. Nance
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>From: orpheus >depends
EEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWW
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"orpheus" <orpheus2001.Delete.T…@ziplip.com> wrote in message
news:hje88u0500a3ot5lgfj36quscmscmchb8i@4ax.com… > On 05 Mar 2002 02:40:37 GMT, jadelee111…@aol.com (Jadelee111512) > wrote: > >For as long as I lived with my dad and have visited him since, he has and > >always will be a night eater > Yeah, me too…that’s why the article caught my attention. > As I stand in front of the fridge tonight, remembering the article, > I’ll probably get stressed.
and eat twice as much 
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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->From: orpheus >Abnormal Stress Response Associated With Night Eating Syndrome >NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Feb 12 – Night eating syndrome, >characterized by a lack of appetite during the day and insomnia and >increased appetite at night, may be caused by an abnormal response to >stress, new study findings show. "Night eaters have a different >pattern of hormonal release to stress than normal eaters," lead study >author Dr. Grethe S. Birketvedt of the University of Tromso in Norway >told Reuters Health. >To investigate, Dr. Birketvedt and her colleagues studied stress >hormone secretion patterns in five female night eaters and a control >group of five women without the syndrome. The night eaters all >consumed more than half of their daily food intake after 8 PM, and >woke at least once during the night to eat. >The researchers challenged the subjects with 100 micrograms of >corticotropin-releasing hormone, which is normally released in >response to stress and triggers the secretion of other stress >hormones. >In general, the night eaters exhibited a gradual and slight increase >in their stress hormones after the injection, followed by a gradual >decrease, while their peers in the comparison group exhibited a rapid >and significantly greater increase in their stress hormones, followed >by a gradual decrease, the investigators report in the February >edition of the American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and >Metabolism. Thus, the night eaters’ hormone secretion in response to >induced stress was significantly weaker than their peers’. >The study group was "worn out," Dr. Birketvedt explained. For example, >their levels of the stress hormone cortisol at the beginning of the >study were higher than those seen in the controls. "If [you are] >stressed 24 hours a day, there will be no reaction when stress is >induced," Dr. Birketvedt said. >In general, these findings indicate that the relationship between the >adrenal gland, hypothalamus, and pituitary is out of control, Dr. >Birketvedt continued. However, "with these findings, we can find a >treatment that turns the biological clock back to normal."
For as long as I lived with my dad and have visited him since, he has and always will be a night eater…stress or no stress, he would awaken in the middle of the night and stand in front of the fridge and chow down.
