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·May 17, 2024·5 min read

Distracted Eating Fuels Later Indulgence

Distractions during meals, such as watching videos or playing games, can lead to decreased enjoyment and satisfaction, triggering compensatory overconsumption of pleasurable activities later. This phenomenon, termed "hedonic compensation," suggests that individuals seek to fulfill their unmet enjoyment quota by indulging in other pleasurable activities.

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·January 10, 2023·3 min read

Visual Food Cues Can Affect Your Eating Behavior Even When You Are Not Aware of Them

In the inferior frontal gyrus, brain activity differs in response to food stimuli such as images of food depending on whether those images are presented consciously or unconsciously.

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·November 22, 2022·5 min read

Skipping Meals, Fasting and Eating Meals Too Closely Together May Be Linked to Increased Mortality Risk

A new study links daily eating to mortality risk. Those over 40 who eat one meal a day have a higher mortality risk. Those who skip breakfast are at an increased risk of cardiovascular disease-associated death, and those who eat meals less than 4.5 hours apart have increased mortality risks.

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·June 9, 2021·4 min read

Eating Soft Foods May Alter the Brain’s Control of Chewing

Rats fed either a diet of soft or hard foods showed differences in jaw activity and muscle control when a chewing-related region of the brain was stimulated. Findings reveal the anterior cortical masticatory area strongly influences the regulation of chewing and is influenced by sensory input during development.

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·May 26, 2021·5 min read

This Brain Circuit Signals When to Stop Eating; Could Regulating It Help With Obesity

Researchers have identified a subpopulation of dopaminergic neurons in the caudal ventral tegmental area that appears to suppress food intake by triggering satiation in mice.

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·April 6, 2021·4 min read

Leptin Puts the Brakes on Eating via Novel Neurocircuit

Researchers have identified novel neurocircuitry between midbrain structures which are modulated by leptin to control eating behaviors in mice.

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·February 23, 2021·3 min read

Actively Preparing or Watching Others Prepare Food Can Lead to Eating More

Actively preparing your food, or watching others prepare your meal for you, can increase your desire to eat and lead you to consume more, a new study reports.

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·September 29, 2020·3 min read

Noise Can Put You off Your Food

Relaxing music can help enhance enjoyment while dining, a new study reports. However, normal background noise in restaurants can have a negative impact on the dining experience.

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·February 17, 2020·4 min read

The skinny on why poor sleep may increase heart risk in women

Women who sleep poorly tend to overeat and have an unhealthy diet, putting them at increased risk of developing heart disease and obesity.

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·August 17, 2019·3 min read

How stress can curb the desire to eat

Paraventricular hypothalamus to ventral lateral septum neurotransmission underlies dynamic feeding associated with emotional state. The network may underly the comorbidity between eating abnormalities experienced while under extreme stress.

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·June 25, 2019·3 min read

These neurons affect how much you do, or don’t, want to eat

Neurons in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST) appear to regulate food intake. The neurons appear to form part of a network that controls appetite loss in mice.

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·March 22, 2019·2 min read

Eating breakfast with parents is associated with positive body image for teenagers

Teenagers who regularly eat breakfast with their parents have a more positive body image than those who skip the meal or do not eat with their family.