Cah Gisting 09:22 Add Comment Food reward Edit What Properties Make a Food "Addictive"? Although the concept of food addiction remains controversial, there's no doubt that specific foods can provoke addiction-like behaviors ... Read More
Cah Gisting 16:15 Add Comment Food reward, overweight, presentations Edit Why Do We Overeat? A Neurobiological Perspective I just posted a narrated Powerpoint version of my talk " Why Do We Overeat? A Neurobiological Perspective " to YouTube. Here'... Read More
Cah Gisting 16:03 Add Comment Food reward, overweight Edit 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... Read More
Cah Gisting 19:00 Add Comment evolution, Food reward, hyperphagia, overweight, paleolithic diet Edit 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... Read More
Cah Gisting 19:00 Add Comment Food reward, hyperphagia, overweight Edit 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... Read More
Cah Gisting 19:00 Add Comment book review, Food reward, overweight Edit 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... Read More
Cah Gisting 19:00 Add Comment Food reward Edit 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... Read More
Cah Gisting 19:00 Add Comment Food reward Edit 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 , ... Read More