You may have every intention to eat better. But when your stomach starts to growl, all bets are off. You give into your cravings for chips and soda, again! Why is this happening? The 100 trillion bacteria living in your gut are telling your brain what they want to eat. And they want junk food.… Continue reading The Real Reason You May Be Hooked on Junk Food
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We’ll Pay More for Unhealthy Foods We Crave
We’ll pay more for unhealthy foods when we crave them, neuroscience research done at New York University has found. The study, which appear in April 2018 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) ,also shows that we’re willing to pay disproportionately more for higher portion sizes of craved food items. The… Continue reading We’ll Pay More for Unhealthy Foods We Crave
Conquering Food Cravings
Most of us want to stay at a healthy weight, or get there. But we also face daily – and sometimes hourly – temptations in the form of high-fat, low-nutrition junk food. Is there anything we can do about it? Yes. A study from experts at the University of California Davis found that “eating mindfully”–… Continue reading Conquering Food Cravings
Food May Be Addictive
An international group of researchers has found that food craving activates different brain networks in obese patients than it does in normal weight patients. The team believes that this indicates that the tendency to want food may be “hard-wired” into the brain of overweight patients, becoming a functional brain biomarker. A release on August 30th… Continue reading Food May Be Addictive