<![CDATA[Fast Food Joints Add Hormone to Food That Makes You Want to Eat More - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Fast Food Joints Add Hormone to Food That Makes You Want to Eat More - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Fast Food Joints Add Hormone to Food That Makes You Want to Eat More]]> I wonder if those folks with Prader-Willie (genetic syndrome that causes nervous system problems and an insatiable appetite) actually suffer from a glut of ghrelin? Especially since their bodies are out of whack to being with.

Allivymar

]]> <![CDATA[Fast Food Joints Add Hormone to Food That Makes You Want to Eat More]]> I wouldn't be surprised if a company like McDonalds has already discovered this stuff or something similar. You just know they spend millions on research to discover this sort of thing...

beelzebuddha

]]> <![CDATA[Fast Food Joints Add Hormone to Food That Makes You Want to Eat More]]> @russdanger: I was kinda thinking they might just eat each other. I shouldn't talk like that; it's nasty. Sorry China.

Jeff-Minor

]]> <![CDATA[Fast Food Joints Add Hormone to Food That Makes You Want to Eat More]]> @aspiringexpatriate: FYI we still do architecture and retro-futurism.

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[Fast Food Joints Add Hormone to Food That Makes You Want to Eat More]]> @joemono: A lie . . . or a prediction? Dum dum dum!!!

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[Fast Food Joints Add Hormone to Food That Makes You Want to Eat More]]> @joemono: Um, Futurist and Sci-Fi blog. The retro-futurism and architecture things they used to do were awesome.

@Annalee Newitz: Yeah, some people I met in Moscow just assumed they are doing this already at McD's. After 500+ years as an oppressive, dictatorial state, you just kinda assume that people with power are abusing it. And damn, isn't it just a shock that they are?

aspiringexpatriate

]]> <![CDATA[Fast Food Joints Add Hormone to Food That Makes You Want to Eat More]]> @Log1c: With Chinese food, it's due to a lack of fiber, which the body needs to absorb the sugars. Without that fiber it just goes right on through.

That's why I always get a pack o' Doritos with my Chinese, or eat some whole-wheat bread.

Jonn

]]> <![CDATA[Fast Food Joints Add Hormone to Food That Makes You Want to Eat More]]> I take issue with the statement that ghrelin isn't regulated. The moment somebody puts it in food, it becomes (under Federal Law) an "Unapproved Food Additive" and is very much regulated. I.e. the use you are suggesting would indeed be illegal.

Rangersyl

]]> <![CDATA[Fast Food Joints Add Hormone to Food That Makes You Want to Eat More]]> I am totally having a burger for dinner. With ghrelin on top!

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[Fast Food Joints Add Hormone to Food That Makes You Want to Eat More]]> @Asari: That was probably because you hadn't eaten it for 7 years. Same thing happens with vegetarians and even a small amount of meat.

The burger. It's calling to me.

Aethyr

]]> <![CDATA[Fast Food Joints Add Hormone to Food That Makes You Want to Eat More]]> Wow. Anyone else ever read Frederick Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth's book "The Space Merchants"?

I wonder when they're going to start selling seats on the ship to the Venus colony?

Tex

]]> <![CDATA[Fast Food Joints Add Hormone to Food That Makes You Want to Eat More]]> I am by no means a health food nut, but i quit eating fast food 7 years ago.

I've only eaten it twice since then (being stuck in the middle of nowhere and starving) and both times it messed up my digestion for days.

Asari

]]> <![CDATA[Fast Food Joints Add Hormone to Food That Makes You Want to Eat More]]> Besides, who the fuck are we kidding?

FOOD is addictive!

russdanger

]]> <![CDATA[Fast Food Joints Add Hormone to Food That Makes You Want to Eat More]]> @Jeff-Minor:

You are, of course assuming that the people they eat do not include you.

russdanger

]]> <![CDATA[Fast Food Joints Add Hormone to Food That Makes You Want to Eat More]]> @Bruce_A: I agree... I have heard this, but I have not heard that anyone/anyplace was adding "ghrelin" to anything...

I don't think we should accusing companies without facts.. (but I suspect if fast food companies knew about this they would be using it)

DocGratis

]]> <![CDATA[Fast Food Joints Add Hormone to Food That Makes You Want to Eat More]]> Headline misleading, but delicious

MarlboroTestMonkey7

]]> <![CDATA[Fast Food Joints Add Hormone to Food That Makes You Want to Eat More]]> So wait...ARE fast food restaurants adding this "ghrelin" to their products or not? If they're not, you need to make that crystal clear. Say, by changing the headline.

Bruce_A

]]> <![CDATA[Fast Food Joints Add Hormone to Food That Makes You Want to Eat More]]> @Seth L:
I can see the warnings now.
THE SURGEON GENERAL HAS DETERMINED THAT EATING THIS DELICIOUS "BACONATOR" WILL INCREASE YOUR RISK OF NEEDING TRIPLE BYPASS SURGERY.

Miranda Kali

]]> <![CDATA[Fast Food Joints Add Hormone to Food That Makes You Want to Eat More]]> Pfft. Nicotine has worked for them for years, why change...

Oops, said too much.

@thowland:

Welcome to io9

Seth L

]]> <![CDATA[Fast Food Joints Add Hormone to Food That Makes You Want to Eat More]]> Umm, doesn't the headline seem pretty far away from anything in the article? If you're going to allege food tampering, wouldn't it be best to cite an article (or lift a quote) that, you know, actually alleges food tampering?

thowland

]]> <![CDATA[Fast Food Joints Add Hormone to Food That Makes You Want to Eat More]]> No "So I Married an Axe Murderer" references yet?

I'm disappointed in you people.

"HE PUTS AN ADDICTIVE CHEMICAL IN HIS CHICKEN THAT MAKES YOU CRAVE IT NIGHTLY, SMARTASS!!!"

Ma1agate

]]> <![CDATA[Fast Food Joints Add Hormone to Food That Makes You Want to Eat More]]> I've always suspected something like this. You shouldn't get itchy blood from not having a quarter pounder for two days.

workingonyourinvoice

]]> <![CDATA[Fast Food Joints Add Hormone to Food That Makes You Want to Eat More]]> I've been telling people for years that McDonald's french fries are like crack to me. Now I have something to back it up.

Mmmm, sweet sweet ghrelin.

extracrispy

]]> <![CDATA[Fast Food Joints Add Hormone to Food That Makes You Want to Eat More]]> "a fast food restaurant that wanted to sell more food could easily turn it into an additive in their hamburgers or donuts"

So what you're saying is that this is not currently happening, which makes the headline a flat-out lie?

Also, I read it as "Montreal's McGrill University."

Also also, it seems like this belongs more on the Consumerist rather than a science fiction blog.

joemono

]]> <![CDATA[Fast Food Joints Add Hormone to Food That Makes You Want to Eat More]]> Heh. Max Headroom , prophet.
-Kle.

Klebert L. Hall

]]> <![CDATA[Fast Food Joints Add Hormone to Food That Makes You Want to Eat More]]> this is totally going to screw with (more) the depressive eaters. but i would tear that burger up.

CMG

]]> <![CDATA[Fast Food Joints Add Hormone to Food That Makes You Want to Eat More]]> @diverguy: but at least she was all beef.

I slay me.

zenpoet

]]> <![CDATA[Fast Food Joints Add Hormone to Food That Makes You Want to Eat More]]> doesn't this mean that a similar hormone could be added to healthy food to help us improve our diet as well?

...also, does that mean that I could somehow make women find me attractive with some hormone -voodoo. SWeet! back of Men's health magazine here I come!!!

knots

]]> <![CDATA[Fast Food Joints Add Hormone to Food That Makes You Want to Eat More]]> This explains so much. ...like why the picture heading this article makes me want to eat my CRT. (amazingly enough, even after I just ate a very fine lunch)
Those bastards. Damn them. Damn them to Jenny Craig hell.

Miranda Kali

]]> <![CDATA[Fast Food Joints Add Hormone to Food That Makes You Want to Eat More]]> @Garrison Dean, King Awesome:

And just like McDonalds food, she was faking it too.

diverguy

]]> <![CDATA[Fast Food Joints Add Hormone to Food That Makes You Want to Eat More]]> I made a hormone one time when she ingested my ghrelin behind a McDonalds.

Garrison Dean, Mr. Privilege

]]> <![CDATA[Fast Food Joints Add Hormone to Food That Makes You Want to Eat More]]> Ronald MacDonald is a pusher!

CLOWNS ARE EVIL!

russdanger

]]> <![CDATA[Fast Food Joints Add Hormone to Food That Makes You Want to Eat More]]> I suggest spraying China with stuff. I've heard that cannabilism is going to be very trendy in the near future.

Jeff-Minor

]]> <![CDATA[Fast Food Joints Add Hormone to Food That Makes You Want to Eat More]]> How else are we going to eat rat burgers and like it?

ManchuCandidate

]]> <![CDATA[Fast Food Joints Add Hormone to Food That Makes You Want to Eat More]]> There was a Weekly World News (R.I.P.) a few years back about a restaurateur in [insert exotic Southeast Asian locale] that was slipping opium into his hamburgers.

The police became suspicious when the line went for blocks on end.

randallnathaniel

]]> <![CDATA[Fast Food Joints Add Hormone to Food That Makes You Want to Eat More]]> So its food that wants to make you eat more food? ...Is that the same as chinese where you are still hungry afterwards?

Log1c

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