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center, in politics, a party following a middle course. The term was first used in France in 1789, when the moderates of the National Assembly sat in the center of the hall. It can refer to a separate party in a political system, e.g., the Catholic Center party of imperial and Weimar Germany, or to the middle group of a party consisting of several ideological factions. |
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| Barry Popkin, who directs an obesity program at the University of North Carolina, believes that because we evolved drinking only water and getting all of our calories from food, liquid foods don't "register" on our brain's appetite center the way solid foods do. The Flavor Point is the point when the flavors in your food fill up the appetite center in your brain and you no longer feel hungry. Don't mix sweet and salty foods at the same meal--The combination of these two tastes overstimulates the brain's appetite center, causing you to |
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