Western junk-food diet can slow down your brain and make you eat even more junk
Just one week of switching to a diet of burgers, waffles, milkshakes, and sugary cereals can be enough to trigger ...
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How a simple trick could inoculate adolescents against junk food advertising
A basic intervention could encourage kids to eat healthier food.
Why drinking alcohol gives you the munchies
Food and alcohol may share similar circuits in the brain.
Junk food could be taxed like cigarettes or alcohol, researchers find
A tax on junk food could be a solution to the nation's obesity problem.
New York mice are actively evolving into a new species: city mice
Soon they'll carry little smartphones around. I hope.
Obese teens are much more susceptible to junk food commercials, brain scans reveal
It's no secret that TV food commercials stimulate pleasure and reward centers in the brain, after all advertisers wouldn't pay ...
Overweight kids overcome junk food addiction by staring at it
Counter the popular dictum "out of sight, out of mind", Kerri Boutelle, professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at University of California, ...
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