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Smoking can cut your food intake

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SmokingLondon : Smoking can have a significant effect on dietary intake. It can cause smokers to eat 152 fewer calories than those who are abstaining, finds a study.

The reduction can be attributed to the effect of smoking on levels of hormone ghrelin — the hunger hormones, the researchers said.

“The study found that smoking had an acute effect on energy intake that could be mediated by alterations in ghrelin levels,” said lead researcher, Konstantina Zachari from Harokopio University Athens, Greece.

Conversely cessation of smoking could also lead to obesity, the researchers revealed.

Adolescents, particularly girls, may start and continue smoking for weight management, the study pointed out, adding that the belief that smoking regulates body weight follows adolescent smokers into their adulthood.

The post cessation weight gain (PSCWG – with a mean weight gain of around 10 kg over 5 years), is an important factor that demotivates people, mainly women, to quit smoking and is a common reason for relapse, the study said.

Increased food intake and post cessation Basic Metabolic Rhythm (BMR) may be the reason for the increase in weight, the researchers found.

The study aimed to examine the acute effect of smoking and its abstinence on dietary intake, subjective feelings and hormones related to appetite.

For the study, the team involved 14 healthy males who participated in two trials after overnight abstinence from smoking and food.

The first trial involved the C-cig, where they smoked two cigarettes of their brand and in the second one, the S-sham (control) where they held the cigarette as smoking without lighting it.

The results were presented at 2016 European Respiratory Society (ERS) International Congress in London, recently.

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Covid toll in Karnataka is a worrying sign for state government

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Even though Karnataka recorded the lowest number of Covid deaths in April since the virus struck first in 2020, the state is recording a rise in the positivity rate (1.50 per cent). Five people died from the Covid infections in April as per the statistics released by the state health department. In March, the positivity rate stood around 0.53 per cent. In the first week of April it came down to 0.38 per cent, second week registered 0.56 per cent, third week it rose to 0.79 per cent and by end of April the Covid positivity rate touched 1.19 per cent.

on an average 500 persons used to succumb everyday in the peak of Covid infection, as per the data. Health experts said that the mutated Coronavirus is losing its fierce characteristics as vaccination, better treatment facilities and awareness among the people have contributed to the lesser number of Covid deaths.

During the 4th and 6th of April two deaths were reported in Bengaluru, one in Gadag district on April 8, two deaths were reported from Belagavi and Vijayapura on April 30. The first Covid case was reported in the state in March 2020 and three Covid deaths were recorded in the month. In the following month 21 people became victims to the deadly virus, and May 2020 recorded 22 deaths. The death toll recorded everyday after May crossed three digits. However, the third wave, which started in January 2

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