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The biology behind binge eating
May 1, 2013 ? Female rats are much more likely to binge eat than male rats, according to new research that provides some of the strongest evidence yet that biology plays a role in eating disorders.
The study, by Michigan State University scientists, is the first to establish sex differences in rates of binge eating in animals and has implications for humans. Binge eating is one of the core symptoms of most eating disorders, including bulimia nervosa and the binge/purge subtype of anorexia nervosa, and females are four to 10 times more likely than males to have an eating disorder.
"Most theories of why eating disorders are so much more prevalent in females than males focus on the increased cultural and psychological pressure that girls and women face," said Kelly Klump, lead author and professor of psychology. "But this study suggests that biological factors likely contribute as well, since female rats do not experience the psychosocial pressures that humans do, such as pressures to be thin."
Klump and colleagues ran a feeding experiment with 30 female and 30 male rats over a two-week period, replacing the rodents' food pellets periodically with vanilla frosting. They found that the rate of binge eating "proneness" (i.e., the tendency to consume the highest amount of frosting across all feeding tests) was up to six times higher in female as compared to male rats.
The tendency to binge eat may be related to the brain's natural reward system, or the extent to which someone likes and seeks reward, Klump said. The MSU researchers currently are testing the rats to see if female brains are more sensitive and/or responsive to rewarding stimuli (e.g., high-fat, high-sugar food) and the chemicals that trigger reward behavior.
The answers could ultimately help improve therapy -- both counseling and medications -- for those with eating disorders.
"This research suggests there is probably a biological difference between males and females that we need to explore to understand risk factors and mechanisms," Klump said.
The study is published online in the International Journal of Eating Disorders. Klump's co-authors are Cheryl Sisk, psychology professor, and graduate students Sarah Racine and Britny Hildebrandt.
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- Kelly L. Klump, Sarah Racine, Britny Hildebrandt, Cheryl L. Sisk. Sex differences in binge eating patterns in male and female adult rats. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 2013; DOI: 10.1002/eat.22139
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Thursday, May 2, 2013
Early Hollywood teen star Deanna Durbin dies at 91
FILE - In this May 30, 1939 file photo, actress Deanna Durbin sits with Vaughn Paul in the clubhouse of Hollywood Park in Los Angeles. Paul was Durbin's first husband. Durbin, the internationally famous child star from Hollywood's Golden Age who brought her pure soprano voice and natural, girl-next-door looks to nearly 30 movies, died in April 2013. Family friend Bob Koster, whose father directed six of Durbin's films, tells The Associated Press on Wednesday May 1, 2013 that she died at age 91 in a village outside Paris in April. (AP File Photo)
FILE - In this May 30, 1939 file photo, actress Deanna Durbin sits with Vaughn Paul in the clubhouse of Hollywood Park in Los Angeles. Paul was Durbin's first husband. Durbin, the internationally famous child star from Hollywood's Golden Age who brought her pure soprano voice and natural, girl-next-door looks to nearly 30 movies, died in April 2013. Family friend Bob Koster, whose father directed six of Durbin's films, tells The Associated Press on Wednesday May 1, 2013 that she died at age 91 in a village outside Paris in April. (AP File Photo)
FILE - This 1937 file photo shows singer and film actress Deanna Durbin. Durbin, the internationally famous child star from Hollywood's Golden Age who brought her pure soprano voice and natural, girl-next-door looks to nearly 30 movies, died in April. Family friend Bob Koster, whose father directed six of Durbin's films, tells The Associated Press on Wednesday May 1, 2013 that she died at age 91 in a village outside Paris in April. (AP File Photo)
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Deanna Durbin, the teen sensation whose sparkling soprano voice and girl-next-door looks made her a star during Hollywood's Golden Age, has died, a family friend said Wednesday. She was 91.
Durbin died on about April 20 in a village outside Paris where she had lived, out of public view, since 1949, family friend Bob Koster of Los Angeles told the Associated Press. Koster's father, Henry Koster, directed six of Durbin's films. Bob Koster did not know the cause of death.
At the height of her career, the Canadian-born Durbin, who made her first feature, "Three Smart Girls," at age 13, was among the highest-paid actresses.
Her fans included Winston Churchill, who said she was his favorite star according to biographer William Manchester, and Anne Frank, who had Durbin's photo pasted on the wall in the secret quarters where she and her family hid in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam.
In 1938 she received an honorary Academy Award for her "significant contribution in bringing to the screen the spirit and personification of youth."
Her hair, makeup and on-screen outfits set fashion trends worldwide and were emulated by millions. In the 1941 hit "Nice Girl?" Durbin, then 20, wore a spangled white organdy dress, ruffled and modestly cut, that became the rage at proms and country club dances across the United States.
"She was one of the last really legitimate movie stars from the 1930s who was still with us," film historian Alan K. Rode told the Los Angeles Times. "She was a huge box-office star for a short period of time."
But Durbin retired from the movies at age 28 and never looked back despite appeals from directors, studios and fans.
Deanna Durbin was born Edna Mae Durbin on Dec. 4, 1921 in Winnipeg, Canada. Because of illness, her father moved the family to Los Angeles where the young Edna was discovered by a talent scout while singing at a school recital.
In 1936, she co-starred with Judy Garland in "Every Sunday." The financially struggling Universal hired her to star in "Three Smart Girls." It was Durbin's first full-length feature, and it was a huge success thanks to the young actress' strong screen presence. A year later, "One Hundred Men and a Girl" followed suit, saving Universal from bankruptcy and earning the renamed Deanna Durbin the nickname, "the mortgage lifter."
Rode said Durbin, along with Abbot and Costello, "saved the studio from going down the tubes."
By 1939 child roles were becoming increasingly out-of-reach for Durbin who had grown into a mature young woman. She was passed over for the role of Dorothy in the classic "Wizard of Oz" and Garland got the part. That same year saw her first on-screen kiss ? with Robert Stack ? and the news bumped war headlines off daily papers.
Durbin married cinematographer Vaughn Paul in 1941, and was divorced in 1943.
She made "Can't Help Singing," her first and only Technicolor film, in 1944. Her other films were in black-and-white because studio executives said it was too expensive to have Deanna Durbin and color film in the same movie.
That same year she married playwright Felix Jackson, 20 years her senior. They had one daughter and divorced in 1949.
In 1945, Durbin made "Lady on a Train" ? directed by Charles David, whom she married five years later. The two moved to France and had a son. David died in 1999.
Durbin is survived by her daughter, Jessica Jackson, and her son, Peter H. David.
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Obama taps Pritzker, Froman for economic jobs
May 1 (Reuters) - Post position for Saturday's 139th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs after Wednesday's draw (listed as barrier, HORSE, jockey, trainer) 1. BLACK ONYX, Joe Bravo, Kelly Breen 2. OXBOW, Gary Stevens, D. Wayne Lukas 3. REVOLUTIONARY, Calvin Borel, Todd Pletcher 4. GOLDEN SOUL, Robby Albarado, Dallas Stewart 5. NORMANDY INVASION, Javier Castellano, Chad Brown 6. MYLUTE, Rosie Napravnik, Tom Amoss 7. GIANT FINISH, Jose Espinoza, Tony Dutrow 8. GOLDENCENTS, Kevin Krigger, Doug O'Neill 9. OVERANALYZE, Rafael Bejarano, Todd Pletcher 10. PALACE MALICE, Mike Smith, Todd Pletcher 11. ...
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-taps-pritzker-froman-economic-jobs-143013443.html
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Why You Should Never Major in Actuarial Science - Actuarial Outpost
So you want to be an actuary? Great. Join the club.
Want to major in actuarial science? Not so great. Here's why:
In short, you are pigeonholing yourself. You might be signing up for a "great" program that will help you pass exams, but it will limit your marketability. There are only so many actuarial jobs out there, and the competition is stiff with new graduates who have multiple internships, have all pre-lims passed, and need no visa.
I work in a fairly non-traditional field, but I've worked in a traditional actuarial role as well. Thankfully, I had the opportunity to get into some stuff like real analysis, partial differential equations, stochastic calculus, and statistical modeling in college, an opportunity I wouldn't have gotten had I studied actuarial science. It's opened up a lot of doors for me. These are all things which I use regularly and have some serious applications with actuarial exams.
How will you pass the exams without your college exam prep classes?
You don't really need them. The exam prep classes at college really only go over some of the pre-lim material. It doesn't cover all of it, so you'll have to do a lot of studying on your own anyway. Past those initial pre-lims, what you learn as an actuarial science major will have very limited applicability. Besides, it's best to get into the habit of teaching yourself the exam material as soon as you can.
So what happens if you don't get an actuarial job?
Major in actuarial science, then walk into any job interview outside of the insurance field and you'll be met with blank stares. Same thing with applying to grad school. Your commitment to being an actuary is apparent, but it is also apparent you are only interested in being an actuary.
What are some alternatives?
Math (Personally I think pure or theoretical mathematics is the way to go)
Economics
Physics
Engineering
Finance
Business
Anything that gives you enough math background and time to pass exams in college (outside of actuarial science)
And no, we hiring managers won't fault you for studying other things in college. If anything it will make you stand out against the pack.
Sidenote: Don't be that guy in school that majors in Actuarial Science because you didn't think you could pass complex analysis or abstract algebra. If you don't have the study skills and the rudimentary level of intelligence necessary to pass that stuff, you will probably have difficulty with some of the later actuarial exams as well. Do the rest of the thousands of desperate EL candidates a favor and focus your efforts on something that will be more beneficial to you in the long run.
Source: http://www.actuarialoutpost.com/actuarial_discussion_forum/showthread.php?t=259999
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Most Americans say Boston attack not an immigration issue: Poll
By Susan Heavey
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Most Americans do not see the Boston Marathon bombing and its suspects as an immigration issue, according to a poll released on Wednesday that also found the U.S. public still relatively inattentive to the debate on revising immigration laws.
While discussion of the immigration bill is still in its early stages, the blasts last month have been mentioned by some Republicans as a reason to go slow on the legislation.
U.S. law enforcement officials have named two ethnic Chechen brothers as perpetrators of the April 15 attack. One, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was killed in a shootout with police three days after the bombing. The other, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, has been charged and is being held in custody.
According to the Pew Research Center survey, only 36 percent of respondents said the Boston attack should be considered an "important factor" in the debate over how to revamp U.S. immigration law, while 58 percent said it was "mostly a separate issue."
Also, 57 percent of those polled said immigration changes would "not make much difference" when it comes to preventing similar attacks in the future, while the rest were split.
The Pew researchers noted that "the debate over immigration policy has drawn little public attention."
Just 19 percent of respondents said they were closely following the debate over the comprehensive immigration bill, Pew said. And most of those polled did not know about some of the legislation's key aspects, it added.
Overall, respondents were divided over the Senate immigration proposal, with 33 percent in favor and 28 percent against it, according to the telephone survey of 1,003 adults across the United States conducted from April 25 to April 28. The survey had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.7 percent.
The bipartisan bill being pushed by a bipartisan group of eight senators aims to bolster border security, help provide workers and create an earned pathway to U.S. citizenship for undocumented immigrants.
(Reporting by Susan Heavey; Editing by Fred Barbash and David Brunnstrom)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/most-americans-boston-attack-not-immigration-issue-poll-190525667.html
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Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Pink Floyd poser arrested for theft by swindle
May 1 (Reuters) - Post position for Saturday's 139th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs after Wednesday's draw (listed as barrier, HORSE, jockey, trainer) 1. BLACK ONYX, Joe Bravo, Kelly Breen 2. OXBOW, Gary Stevens, D. Wayne Lukas 3. REVOLUTIONARY, Calvin Borel, Todd Pletcher 4. GOLDEN SOUL, Robby Albarado, Dallas Stewart 5. NORMANDY INVASION, Javier Castellano, Chad Brown 6. MYLUTE, Rosie Napravnik, Tom Amoss 7. GIANT FINISH, Jose Espinoza, Tony Dutrow 8. GOLDENCENTS, Kevin Krigger, Doug O'Neill 9. OVERANALYZE, Rafael Bejarano, Todd Pletcher 10. PALACE MALICE, Mike Smith, Todd Pletcher 11. ...
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/pink-floyd-poser-arrested-theft-swindle-161523910.html
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