Posted on Jun 17th, 2010 |
The terms "food addiction," "food addict," and "food junkie" have long since been incorporated into the American jargon, but new scientific evidence can now justify their implications in the era of the growing American waistband. A study conducted by the Scripps Research Institute and sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) discovered similarities between the brain mechanisms associated to drug addiction in humans with those of compulsive eating habits and the development of obesity. The study is now available in the online version of Nature Neuroscience journal or its May 2010 print publication.
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Posted on May 5th, 2010 |
For many people, it’s common to reach for some chocolate or ice cream after a particularly hard day. But for those who struggle with weight or food issues, this can be detrimental to their long-term success, and most weight-loss programs never even address this problem.
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Posted on Apr 9th, 2010 |
Researchers say that rats given unlimited access to high-fat foods exhibited addiction-like responses in their brains that could underlie compulsive eating and obesity.
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Posted on Apr 5th, 2010 |
In a newly published study, scientists from The Scripps Research Institute have shown for the first time that the same molecular mechanisms that drive people into drug addiction are behind the compulsion to overeat, pushing people into obesity. The new study, conducted by Scripps Research Associate Professor Paul J. Kenny and graduate student Paul M. Johnson, was published March 28, 2010 in an advance online edition of the journal Nature Neuroscience.
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Posted on Feb 10th, 2010 |
A study published in the open access journal BMC Neuroscience has shown that chocolate-craving mice are ready to tolerate electric shocks to get their fix. Rossella Ventura worked with a team of researchers from the Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Italy, to study the links between stress and compulsive food-seeking.
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