Februari 2013

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...

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 , ...

This week, Food Reward Friday is going to be a little bit different. I've received a few e-mails from people who would like to see me w...

I recently revisited a really cool paper published in the Lancet in 2009 on body fatness, biomarkers, health, and mortality ( 1 ). It's ...

This week's "winner"... the Banana Split! Read more »

This week's lucky "winner"... an unnamed hot dog-laden Pizza Hut monstrosity with tempura shrimp and mayonnaise! Read more »

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...

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 ...

In previous posts in this series, I explained that the brain (primarily the mesolimbic system) integrates various factors to decide whether ...

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...

In this post, I'll follow up on the last post with a discussion two more important factors that can affect energy homeostasis and theref...