Lab rats respond by seeking pleasure, including eating high-energy food.

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Bernanke also said there is "significant" risk that inflation could become a self-fulfilling prophecy if high headline inflation--which includes volatile energy and food prices--remains high, as people will simply come to expect higher prices.

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Inflation, they said, was caused by high commodity prices pushing up energy and food costs, while supply-chain disruptions in Japan were in the process of being solved.

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Importantly, the government has accepted a WFP plane to go into Yangon tomorrow with emergency food aid - high-energy biscuits.

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World Food Programme announced it has enough high-energy biscuits to feed 400, 000 people for three days.

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Analysts have continued to forecast rapid earnings growth and high profit margins even in the face of rising energy and food costs and stagnant U.S. and falling European incomes.

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That seems unlikely in the current high-unemployment environment except for consumer essentials, like food and energy.

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In April, headline consumer prices rose by 0.7%, a near-nine-year high, while core inflation, which excludes the volatile categories of food and energy, rose 0.4%, or 2.2% compared with a year earlier.

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World Food Programme, which unloaded a plane carrying 7 metric tons of high-energy biscuits on Thursday.

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Lawmakers and consumer advocacy groups have also called on the Food and Drug Administration to investigate the safety of the high levels of caffeine in energy drinks for younger people.

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