appestat
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appestat
[′ap·ə‚stat] (physiology)
The center for appetite regulation in the hypothalamus.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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By contrast, eating a piece of cake, which has no fibre and lots of sugar, never stimulates the
appestat to shut down, and consequently your body doesn't know you are full before you have had time to consume two or three pieces of cake.
The items will be formulated with
Appestat, a combination of green tea, cinnamon twig and galangal and use biogenic amines, a group of chemical compounds to help users lose weight.
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