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If you're anything like us and still incorporate large quantities of instant ramen noodles into your diet (is that shameful for a food writer to admit?), this morning's news might cause more than a little worry. We woke to our local news broadcasters discussing yet another American health worry: salt. Apparently Americans consume 50% too much salt in their diet, much of it locked up in processed and canned foods, and the FDA is...

Licinio's team discovered that lean people experience a huge nighttime surge of ghrelin — the hormone that stimulates hunger — but obese people do not. Published June 28 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study suggests that obesity suppresses the ghrelin spike, perhaps disrupting the body's internal cues for hunger and overpowering its ability to regulate appetite. The findings may point researchers to new biological targets for treating obesity.