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Jul

2011

Why one biscuit is never enough: Doctors reveal the science of hunger pangs - and what you can do about them | Mail Online

Most people think hunger pangs are brought on by their stomach. In fact, that feeling is generated inside your brain.

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Food Hunger Brain Desire

‘Two systems bring on appetite,’ says Victor Zammit, professor of metabolic biochemistry at Warwick Medical School.
‘A long-term system measures how fat we are, reported by levels of leptin, a hormone secreted by fat cells; while a short-term system tells us how long since we last ate, measured by the contents of the stomach, intestines and colon.’
We basically feel hungry if our fat levels drop or the stomach is empty.
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- ‘If you diet and lose fat, your leptin levels drop and that is like switching on an alarm in the brain,’ says Professor O’Rahilly.
  ‘The brain then makes you feel hungry, signalling that you must find food and consume calories immediately.’
  Exercise is similarly self-defeating for dieters because the drop in blood sugar — as it is used up by muscles — lowers the level of insulin, another hormone responsible for switching off appetite. Low insulin levels lead to food acquiring behaviour.
- we do sometimes crave what we need.
- ‘Satisfying our appetite is a hard-wired behaviour which encourages us to seek out highly dense food for the biggest energy intake,’ says Professor O’Rahilly.

Jun

2011

Metro or Bi? Digging Deeper into Modern Masculinity

“Contrary to what you have been told, metrosexuality is not about flip-flops and facials, ‘man-bags’ or ‘manscara’. Or about men becoming ‘girlie’ or ‘gay’” says Mark Simpson, the man who coined the word “metrosexual”. “It’s about men becoming everything. Quite simply, metrosexuality is men’s “desire to be desired”. Men in contemporary society are now able to admit to wanting to be beautiful and to be appreciated as “objects of desire” in a way that was previously reserved for women.”
But I find that wherever I look there are discussions about ‘‘the objectification of women’s bodies” or “sexual violence against women and girls” or “pornography and women”. It has reached a point where I have to ask, without irony, “what about the men?” Simpson, an English author and journalist, has spent his entire career asking that very question.

Simpson coined “metrosexual” back in 1994, but it really became a media-fuelled phenomenon in 2003 when “metromania” hit the USA. From Barack Obama to David Beckham to Giorgio Armani to Eminem to The Situation, the metro man is everyman. As Simpson explains, “metrosexuality is the male desire to be desired by everyone, including and sometimes especially by other men. This was once regarded as pathological, perverted and definitely something to keep to yourself. Now it is so commonplace it’s almost ‘normal’. Perhaps even – eek! – ordinary.”

But, it’s not as though men just became narcissistic. Simpson says it’’s clear that men had a capacity for sensuality and vanity – a desire to be desired – but for most of history it has been closeted. Men were to be warriors or laborers or empire builders. They weren’t meant to be beautiful. The Victorians codified a sexual division that decreed women were beauty and men were action. But now that men have been encouraged to get in touch with their vanity and sensuality it seems there’s no stopping it!

Metrosexuality differs from other incarnations of male self-love, in that it’s reliant on consumer capitalism. In other words, if you want to look h

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Metrosexuality Gender Stereotype Gender Equality Desire Homosexuality Capitalism

wherever I look there are discussions about ‘‘the objectification of women’s bodies” or “sexual violence against women and girls” or “pornography and women”. It has reached a point where I have to ask, without irony, “what about the men?”
metrosexuality is the male desire to be desired by everyone, including and sometimes especially by other men. This was once regarded as pathological, perverted and definitely something to keep to yourself. Now it is so commonplace it’s almost ‘normal’. Perhaps even – eek! – ordinary.

Nov

2010

Balderdash: Dostoevsky on Desire

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Freedom Desire Capitalism

"The world has proclaimed the reign of freedom, especially of late, but what do we see in this freedom of theirs? Nothing but slavery and self-destruction! For the world says:

'You have desires and so satisfy them, for you have the same rights as the most rich and powerful. Don't be afraid of satisfying them and even multiply your desires.' That is the modern doctrine of the world. In that they see freedom. And what follows from this right of multiplication of desires? In the rich, isolation and spiritual suicide; in the poor, envy and murder; for they have been given rights, but have not been shown the means of satisfying their wants. They maintain that the world is getting more and more united, more and more bound together in brotherly community, as it overcomes distance and sets thoughts flying through the air.
Interpreting freedom as the multiplication and rapid satisfaction of desires, men distort their own nature, for many senseless and foolish desires and habits and ridiculous fancies are fostered in them. They live only for mutual envy, for luxury and ostentation.