[Note: in previous versions, I mixed up "LGI" and "HGI" terms in a couple of spots. These are now corrected. Thanks to...
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Is Refined Carbohydrate Addictive?
[Note: in previous versions, I mixed up "LGI" and "HGI" terms in a couple of spots. These are now corrected. Thanks to...
The Neurobiology of the Obesity Epidemic
I recently read an interesting review paper by Dr. Edmund T. Rolls titled "Taste, olfactory and food texture reward processing in the b...
Food Variety, Calorie Intake, and Weight Gain
Let's kick off this post with a quote from a 2001 review paper ( 1 ): Increased variety in the food supply may contribute to the develop...
Book Review: Salt, Sugar, Fat
Michael Moss is a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist who has made a career writing about the US food system. In his latest book, Salt, Sugar...
Your Brain on Potato Chips
Or, more accurately, a rat's brain on potato chips. Last week, PLoS One published a very interesting paper by Dr. Tobias Hoch and colle...
Salt Sugar Fat
I'd just like to put in a quick word for a book that will be released tomorrow, titled Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us , ...
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Why Do We Eat? A Neurobiological Perspective. Part VIII
In the (probably) last post of this series, I'll take the pieces that I've gradually outlined in previous posts, and put them togeth...
Why Do We Eat? A Neurobiological Perspective. Part VII
Welcome back to the series, after a bit of a hiatus! In previous posts, we covered the fact that humans eat because we're motivated to ...
Why Do We Eat? A Neurobiological Perspective. Part VI
In previous posts in this series, I explained that the brain (primarily the mesolimbic system) integrates various factors to decide whether ...
Why Do We Eat? A Neurobiological Perspective. Part V
In previous posts, I explained that food intake is determined by a variety of factors that are detected by the brain, and integrated by circ...
Why Do We Eat? A Neurobiological Perspective. Part III
In the first post, I explained that all voluntary actions are driven by a central action selection system in the mesolimbic area (the reward...
Why Do We Eat? A Neurobiological Perspective. Part II
In the last post, I explained that eating behavior is determined by a variety of factors, including hunger and a number of others that I...
Why Do We Eat? A Neurobiological Perspective. Part I
As with all voluntary movements, eating food is an expression of activity in the brain. The brain integrates various inputs from around the...
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The Potato Diet
In 2010, I wrote a series of blog posts on the health properties of potatoes ( 1 , 2 , 3 ). The evidence showed that potatoes are non-toxic...
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