For just under 50 calories, a cup of casaba melon has about the same amount of fiber. Honeydew melon provides 64 calories and 1.4 grams of fiber per cup, which also amounts to 6 percent of the daily value for fiber. Watermelon, however, is nearly 60 percent lower in fiber than other kinds of melon.
Since insulin is already known to increase levels of leptin -- the obesity hormone that tells your brain to curb your appetite after eating -- the findings suggest that insulin plays an important role in controlling what you eat.umans and mice share the same type of brain-cell connections and hormones, as well as similar architectures in the pleasure centers of the brain. The premise that hunger makes food look more appealing is a widely held belief.
Estrogen regulates the brain's energy metabolism in the same way as the hormone leptin, leading the way to a viable approach to tackling obesity in people resistant to leptin, researchers at Yale School of Medicine report in the Dec. 31 online issue of Nature Medicine.