hungry every few hours

I've recently upped my calories to just under 2000 from around 1500 and now find myself getting hungry quite often- does this mean my body is using what I'm giving it for repair and my metabolism is actually working?

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Hunger pangs every hour

I eat ~2200-2500 calories a day and I get hunger pangs every hour. My stats are 5'2", 106 pounds. It gets annoying. I get hungry even after a full meal and even when I eat protein. Anyone else have any insight into why and how to deal with it? 

PS: I don't have any medical conditions like an ED, etc

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Disney to release new Star Wars film every year

Disney is apparently planning to release a brand new Star Wars film every summer from 2015 to 2019.

The company, which acquired Lucasfilm in a multi-billion-dollar deal last year, announced at CinemaCon that the JJ Abrams-directed Episode VII will be succeeded by Episodes VIII and IX in 2017 and 2019.

In the years between that, several stand-alone character spin-offs are scheduled to form their own franchises, following on from the success of films such as The Avengers and X-Men.

As of yet, there are no more details on who will work on the spin-offs, or which characters they will focus on. However, Lawrence Kasdan (The Empire Strikes Back, Return Of  The Jedi), Simon Kinberg and George Lucas will have a say in the decisions made about the new storylines, as they remain as creative consultants for the projects.

Star Wars Episode VII is currently being written by Toy Story 3's Michael Arndt. Abrams, Kennedy and Bryan Burk will produce the movie.

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On 25 March 2013, we wrote...

JJ Abrams has opened up about working on Star Wars Episode 7.

The Star Trek director admitted that he is "just getting started" on the eagerly anticipated sci-fi sequel - the first with Disney.

He also discussed the similarities between the filming process it shares with his other big project, Star Trek Into Darkness.

Asked by Empire what his approach to the film would be, he said: "I don't know because we're just getting started. There are infinitely more questions than answers right now.

"Though I came at both [films] from very different places, where they both meet is a place of, 'Ooh, that's really exciting'.

"And even though I was never a Star Trek fan, I felt like there was a version of it that would make me excited, that I would think, 'That's cool, that feels right, I actually would want to see that'."

SOURCE: EMPIRE

On 20 March 2013, we wrote...

Harrison Ford has broken his silence on starring in Star Wars Episode 7.

The actor, who is set to reprise his role as Han Solo in the Disney sequel of the famous Star Wars franchise, said that he was "looking forward" to filming.

When asked about the sequel by WGNTV, Ford said, "I'm looking forward to it," before backtracking slightly, and saying: "I think it's going to happen."

If Ford does make a return, as he appeared to indicate initially, he will be joining former cast members Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker) and Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia).

Ford is currently attached to several projects, including You Belong To Me, Ender's Game, Anchorman 2 and Indiana Jones 5.

Star Wars Episode 7 will be directed by JJ Abrams, and is scheduled for a 2015 release.

SOURCE: WGNTV

On 7 March 2013, we wrote...

George Lucas has confirmed that the original Star Wars cast are "already signed" for JJ Abrams' Episode 7.

Lucas, who sold the franchise to Disney for $4bn last year, will be involved in the remake and revealed the cast news in an interview with Business Week.

"We had already signed Mark and Carrie and Harrison - or we were pretty much in final stages of negotiation," he said. "So I called them to say, 'Look, this is what's going on'. Maybe I'm not supposed to say that. I think they want to announce that with some big whoop-de-do, but we were negotiating with them."

The film-maker then seemed to back-track, saying: "I won't say whether the negotiations were successful or not."

The news comes after Carrie Fisher seemed to confirm her return yesterday in an interview with Palm Beach Illustrated.

But fans will have to wait some time before the seventh film appears in cinemas - it's not scheduled for release until 2015. As well as JJ Abrams and George Lucas, the crew will include Michael Arndt as screenwriter and Bryan Burk as producer. 

SOURCE: BUSINESS WEEK

On 6 March, we wrote...

Carrie Fisher has confirmed that she will star in the forthcoming Star Wars sequels, planned by Disney.

The actress, who played Princess Leia in the original Star Wars Episodes 4-6, revealed that she would be appearing in the new movies during an interview with Palm Beach Illustrated.

Asked if she could confirm her comeback to the sci-fi franchise, she answered simply: "Yes."

When questioned what she thought Princess Leia would be  like today, she added: "Elderly. She's in an intergalactic old folks' home [laughs]. I just think she would be just like she was before, only slower and less inclined to be up for the big battle."

SOURCE: IO9.com, PALM BEACH ILLUSTRATED

On 29 January 2013, we wrote...

Chloe Moretz is being lined up as the female lead for Star Wars Episode 7, reports suggest.

The Kick Ass actress is apparently in the running to play the female protagonist in the forthcoming instalment of the sci-fi franchise.

However, the original rumour as reported by /Film suggested that casting the actress was part of Matthew Vaughn's pitch to the studio for the job of director - a role he lost out on to JJ Abrams.

Star Wars director Abrams recently described winning the Star Wars job as "wildly surreal".

SOURCE: /FILM

On 25 January 2013, we wrote...

JJ Abrams will direct the next Star Wars movie, it has been reported. 

The Star Trek director will oversee the making of Episode 7 in the legendary sci-fi movie franchise.

Episode 7 was announced last year after Disney acquired the rights to George Lucas' production company, Lucasfilms, in a multi-billion dollar deal.

According to movie gossip site The Wrap, Ben Affleck was also in line for the job, but it was Abrams that won the role.

Speaking to Deadline, an inside source said: "It's a done deal with JJ."

Abrams seemed to rule himself out of the running in December when he declared his commitment to Star Trek.

"There were the very early conversations and I quickly said that because of my loyalty to Star Trek, and also just being a fan [of Star Wars], I wouldn't even want to be involved in the next version of those things," he said previously.

"I declined any involvement very early on. I'd rather be in the audience not knowing what was coming, rather than being involved in the minutiae of making them."

Star Wars Episode 7 is being written by Toy Story 3 screenwriter Michael Arndt. It is set to be released in 2015.

SOURCE: THE WRAP, DEADLINE

On 6 November 2012, we wrote...

Harrison Ford is "open" to reprising his role as Han Solo in the new Star Wars trilogy almost three decades after he last played the role, it has been reported.

According to Entertainment Weekly, a source "close to Ford" suggested that the actor, 70, was enthusiastic about his return, the first of which is due to hit the silver screen in 2015.

Ford's Han Solo is one of three main characters in the original Star Wars, alongside Luke Skywalker, played by Mark Hamill, and Princess Leia, played by Carrie Fisher.

The apparently "highly placed" source told the publication: "Harrison is open to the idea of doing the movie and he's upbeat about it - all three of them are."

Hamill declared his interest in a future project back in August, when he revealed that he and Fisher were told by director George Lucas that Star Wars would be returning. Fish is yet to comment publically. 

SOURCE: ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

On 1 November 2012, we wrote...

George Lucas will donate most of the money that he received from the sale of Lucasfilm to charity, a spokesperson for the company has revealed.

Lucas earned a mammoth $4.05billion dollars from the sale of his company to Walt Disney, in a landmark deal that was announced on Tuesday 30 October.

Speaking to the Hollywood Reporter, the spokesperson said: "George Lucas has expressed his intention, in the event the deal closes, to donate the majority of the proceeds to his philanthropic endeavors."

Lucas established the George Lucas Educational Foundation in 1991. The foundation aims to foster innovation in schools.

SOURCE: HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

On 31 October 2012, we wrote...

Disney has confirmed that it will release Star Wars Episode 7 in 2015 after buying the multi-billion dollar rights for the movie franchise from George Lucas.

The Walt Disney Company announced that it agreed to acquire Lucasfilm for a cool $4.05 billion (£2.5bn) in cash and stock.

Disney chairman and CEO Bob Iger also revealed his plans to release Episodes 8 and 9. He explained during a shareholder conference call: "Our long-term plan is to release a new Star Wars feature film every two to three years."

As part of the deal, Lucasfilm's current co-chair, Kathleen Kennedy, will become the company's president.

In a statement, George Lucas said: "For the past 35 years, one of my greatest pleasures has been to see Star Wars passed from one generation to the next. It's now time for me to pass Star Wars on to a new generation of filmmakers.

"I've always believed that Star Wars could live beyond me, and I thought it was important to set up the transition during my lifetime. I'm confident that with Lucasfilm under the leadership of Kathleen Kennedy, and having a new home within the Disney organisation, Star Wars will certainly live on and flourish for many generations to come.

"Disney's reach and experience give Lucasfilm the opportunity to blaze new trails in film, television, interactive media, theme parks, live entertainment, and consumer products."

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Mammograms Every Other Year OK for Women Over 50: Study

Title: Mammograms Every Other Year OK for Women Over 50: Study
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Created: 3/18/2013 4:35:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 3/19/2013 12:00:00 AM

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Mammograms Every Other Year OK for Women Over 50: Study

Researchers found similar risk for advanced disease as with yearly screening, but some experts disagree

By Kathleen Doheny

HealthDay Reporter

MONDAY, March 18 (HealthDay News) -- Some women 50 and older may be able to have a mammogram every other year without increasing their risk of developing an advanced breast cancer, according to a large new study on nearly 1 million women.

The findings are published online March 18 in JAMA Internal Medicine.

The study conclusions drew mixed reactions, including criticism for its methods, from other experts. Debate about who should get screened with mammography, and how often, has been ongoing.

In the new research, women aged 50 to 74 who got a screening mammogram every other year had a risk of developing advanced-stage breast cancer that was similar to that of women in the same age range who got the test every year.

The researchers evaluated nearly 12,000 women with breast cancer and more than 922,000 without, said researcher Dr. Karla Kerlikowske, a professor of medicine, epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine.

The investigators considered whether the women had high breast density and whether they were taking combination hormone therapy with estrogen and progestin, both considered risk factors for breast cancer. Dense breasts have more glandular tissue and less fatty tissue.

"If you undergo [mammography every two years], you are not any more likely to end up with some advanced breast cancer than if you have annual screenings," Kerlikowske said of this group of women.

Screening every two years -- or biennially -- was also associated with a lower risk of having a false-positive result, the researchers found. False-positives -- suspicions of cancer that turn out not to be after more testing -- can cause more expense and distress, experts note.

However, for women aged 40 to 49 who have extremely dense breasts, the researchers found biennial mammograms were linked with nearly a twofold increased risk of advanced-stage cancers and large tumors, and also a high risk of false-positive results.

In 2009, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, an independent panel of experts, issued its guidelines that women 50 to 74 at average risk should get a mammogram every two years. Women 40 to 49, the task force said, should talk with their doctor about the risks and benefits of screening.

The task force guidelines are at odds with those of many other organizations, including the American Cancer Society, which recommends annual screening beginning at age 40.

The task force guidelines consider only a woman's age, according to Kerlikowske. Her team decided to study the benefits and harms of screening based not just on age but also on breast density and hormone therapy use.

Women in the study were 40 to 74. Most diagnosed with breast cancer during the years studied, 1994 to 2008, were 50 or older. They typically had dense or very dense breasts.

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Alcohol Blamed for 1 in Every 30 Cancer Deaths: Study

Title: Alcohol Blamed for 1 in Every 30 Cancer Deaths: Study
Category: Health News
Created: 2/14/2013 4:36:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 2/15/2013 12:00:00 AM

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Alcohol Blamed for 1 in Every 30 Cancer Deaths: Study

By Steven Reinberg

HealthDay Reporter

THURSDAY, Feb. 14 (HealthDay News) -- For anyone who still thinks that drinking does not contribute to cancer, a new report finds that alcohol is to blame for one in every 30 cancer deaths each year in the United States.

The connection is even more pronounced with breast cancer, with 15 percent of those deaths related to alcohol consumption, the researchers added.

And don't think that drinking in moderation will help, because 30 percent of all alcohol-related cancer deaths are linked to drinking 1.5 drinks or less a day, the report found.

Alcohol is a cancer-causing agent that's in "plain sight," but people just don't see it, said study author Dr. David Nelson, director of the Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program at the U.S. National Cancer Institute.

"As expected, people who are higher alcohol users were at higher risk, but there was really no safe level of alcohol use," he stressed.

Moderate drinking has been associated with heart benefits, Nelson noted. "But, in the broader context of all the issues and all the problems that alcohol is related to, alcohol causes 10 times as many deaths as it prevents," he said.

The best thing people who believe they are at risk for cancer can do is reduce their alcohol consumption, Nelson said. "From a cancer prevention perspective, the less you drink, the lower your risk of an alcohol-related cancer and, obviously, if one doesn't drink at all then that's the lowest risk," he said.

The report was published online Feb. 14 in the American Journal of Public Health.

To determine the risks related to drinking and cancer, Nelson's team compiled data from a variety of sources, including the 2009 Alcohol Epidemiologic Data System, the 2009 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and the 2009-2010 National Alcohol Survey.

Along with breast cancer in women, cancers of the mouth, throat and esophagus were also common causes of alcohol-related cancer deaths in men, accounting for about 6,000 deaths each year.

Each alcohol-related cancer death accounted for an average of 18 years of potential life lost, the researchers added.

Previous studies have shown drinking is a risk factor for cancers of the mouth, throat, esophagus, liver, colon, rectum and, in women, breast cancer, the researchers noted.

According to the American Cancer Society, it's not entirely clear how alcohol might raise cancer risk. Alcohol might act as a chemical irritant to sensitive cells, impeding their DNA repair, or damage cells in other ways. It might also act as a "solvent" for other carcinogens, such as those found in tobacco smoke, helping those chemicals enter into cells more easily. Or alcohol might affect levels of key hormones such as estrogen, upping odds for breast cancer.

One expert says the findings in this study are consistent with what has been shown before.

"Nobody is recommending that if you do not drink to start drinking for any reason," said Susan Gapstur, vice president of epidemiology at the cancer society. "If you do drink, limit your consumption."

Gapstur did point out that smoking is a much more powerful factor in cancer deaths than alcohol. Although some 20,000 cancer deaths can be attributed to alcohol each year, more than 100,000 cancer deaths are caused by smoking, she said.

To strike a balance between the cancer risk of drinking and its possible benefit in preventing heart disease, Gapstur suggested talking with your doctor about the risks and benefits of drinking.

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For more on alcohol and cancer, visit the American Cancer Society.

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One in Every 12 Stroke Survivors Contemplates Suicide, Study Finds

Title: One in Every 12 Stroke Survivors Contemplates Suicide, Study Finds
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Created: 2/7/2013 2:36:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 2/8/2013 12:00:00 AM

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For Older Women, Mammograms Every 2 Years Found as Good as Annual Test

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Thousands of Mistakes Made in Surgery Every Year

Dec. 26, 2012 -- More than 4,000 preventable mistakes occur in surgery every year at a cost of more than $1.3 billion in medical malpractice payouts, according a new study.

How preventable? Well, researchers call them "never events" because they are the kind of surgical mistakes that should never happen, like performing the wrong procedure or leaving a sponge inside a patient's body after surgery.

But researchers found that paid malpractice settlements and judgments for these types of never events occurred about 10,000 times in the U.S. between 1990 and 2010. Their analysis estimates that each week surgeons:

Leave a foreign object like a sponge or towel inside a patient's body after an operation 39 timesPerform the wrong procedure on a patient 20 timesOperate on the wrong body site 20 times

"I continue to find the frequency of these events alarming and disturbing," says Donald Fry, MD, executive vice president at Michael Pine and Associates, a health care think tank in Chicago. "I think it's a difficult thing for clinicians to talk about, but it is something that must be improved."

In the study, researchers looked at malpractice claim information for surgical never events from the National Practitioner Data Bank from 1990 to 2010. The results are published in Surgery.

Malpractice settlements and judgments relating to leaving a sponge or other object inside a patient, performing the wrong operation, operating on the wrong site or on the wrong person were included in their analysis.

The results showed a total of 9,744 paid malpractice judgments and claims for these types of never events were reported over the 20-year period, totaling $1.3 billion.

Based on these results, researchers estimate that 4,044 surgical never events occur each year in the U.S.

Researchers say the actual number of these surgical mistakes is likely even higher.

"What we report is the low end of the range because many never events go unreported," says researcher Marty Makary, MD, MPH, associate professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Makary says by law, hospitals are required to report never events that result in a settlement or judgment.

But not all items left behind after surgery are discovered. They are typically only reported when a patient experiences a complication after surgery, and doctors try to find out why.

"We believe the events we describe are real," says Makary. "I cannot imagine a hospital paying out a settlement for a false claim of a retained sponge."

The consequences of surgical mistakes ranged from temporary injury in 59% of the cases to death in 6.6% of the cases and permanent injury in 33% of people affected.

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