Articles Tagged ‘food’
Articles & Studies | By January 24, 2008 | By J. R. White | 0 Comments
The Science Behind Impulse Buying
The old adage, “Don’t go grocery shopping on an empty stomach” has more validity than you may think. Researches have discovered at least some situations that trigger impulse buying — and not just at the grocery store. Since consumers are the virtual “dead animals on the street” to marketing vultures, it pays to be one step ahead of the game. The ScienceDaily article, “Aroma Of Chocolate Chip Cookies Prompts Splurging On Expensive Sweaters,” provides information that may keep you from the poor house. Read more →
- Preventing Dementia with Salmon, Gardening and Sugar-Free Soda
- Beat Depression with Brain Food while Eating Junk Food
- The Bsx of Obesity
- The Evidence for Neurologically Determined Anorexia Nervosa Behavioral Patterns
Research in the field of dementia prevention and treatment is widespread, as people are living longer and thus developing dementia at a higher rate. Three recently published studies point to the importance of diet and exercise in the development of Alzheimer’s and vascular dementia, the two most... Read more →
Depression sucks, and we have probably all heard that it can be combated with proper diet and adding in missing nutrients. But who are we are fooling? Often, a clinically depressed person would prefer chocolate cake and potato chips for dinner rather than the salmon and salad that would help their condition.... Read more →
We could be a crucial step closer to our understanding of the basics of obesity with discovery of a molecule that makes mice lazier, and reduces all spontaneous physical activity, even looking for food. It’s a molecule called Bsx, which has been isolated from the hypothalamus of mice, and is found... Read more →
Recent research on behavioral characteristics displayed by anorexia nervosa (AN) and anorexia nervosa recovered (ANR) patients point strongly towards an anomalous pattern of activation of the pre-frontal cortex. Unlike in normal women, where food triggers off a reward system in the brain, AN and ANR... Read more →
Friday, May 16, 2008
- Should Doctors Have Guns?
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder: The Mind/Body Connection
- Extremist Muslim Doctors Do More Than Heal
- Are You Depressed Because You're Introverted?
- The Difference Between Doctors and Lawyers
- The Human Injury of Lost Objectivity: An Insider's Look into the Corruption of Clinical Trials
- Persistent Vegetative States: Legal and Political Ramifications
- A Failed Attempt to Improve Perceived Greatness: The ENHANCE Trial
- Acknowledging Vaccination Concerns
- Domestic Violence: Call for Primary Care Screening and Gender Issues - Part I
- Adult Attention Deficit Disorder: A Real Concern
- Acknowledging Vaccination Concerns
- Democracy vs. Domestic Violence
- Cell Transplants for Parkinson’s Disease
- Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD): No Heart for the Meds?
- A Failed Attempt to Improve Perceived Greatness: The ENHANCE Trial
- Should Doctors Have Guns?
- Extremist Muslim Doctors Do More Than Heal
- Drugs and Pharmacology, Seventh Edition
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder: The Mind/Body Connection
- An alternative explanation (or maybe not - could really be the same thing) for w...
- EVERYBODY, IS PART OF A GROUP, THE ATHEIST, THE CHRISTIANS, THE MUSLIMS, THE KUU...
- I think we do not really know how the stimulants helping with AADD work. Their p...
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- I applaud Dan Rogers and the other learned comments on this page. I am not a Doc...
- Respect is a two-way street, and doctors are only human themselves.
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- You are correct. People need to question their "health experts" and get their q...
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