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Whole Health Source: The Case for the Food Reward Hypothesis of Obesity, Part I
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Saturday, October 1, 2011. The Case for the Food Reward Hypothesis of Obesity, Part I. Although food reward and food palatability typically occur together, they are not the same thing. In the 1990s, Dr. Kent Berridge proposed that behavioral and CNS responses to food can be divided into "wanting", corresponding to the reward/motivational aspects of food, and "liking", corresponding to the hedonic/palatability aspects of food, and this framework has been a good fit for the evidence since then ( 1. Note th...
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Whole Health Source: New Review Papers on Food Reward
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Friday, December 2, 2011. New Review Papers on Food Reward. As research on the role of reward/palatability in obesity continues to accelerate, interesting new papers are appearing weekly. Here is a roundup of review papers I've encountered in the last three months. These range from somewhat technical to very technical, but I think they should be mostly accessible to people with a background in the biological sciences. Food and Drug Reward: Overlapping Circuits in Human Obesity and Addiction. This is prob...
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Whole Health Source: Magnesium and Insulin Sensitivity
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Monday, February 22, 2010. Magnesium and Insulin Sensitivity. From a paper based on US NHANES nutrition and health survey data ( 1. During 1999–2000, the diet of a large proportion of the. US population did not contain adequate magnesium. Furthermore, racial or ethnic differences in magnesium persist. And may contribute to some health disparities. Because magnesium intake is low among many. People in the United States and inadequate magnesium status. But not all ( 6. It also increased urinary thromboxane...
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Whole Health Source: Insulin Resistance Predicts a Variety of Age-related Diseases
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Thursday, June 4, 2015. Insulin Resistance Predicts a Variety of Age-related Diseases. In the last post, I reviewed a study by Gerald Reaven's group showing that insulin resistance strongly predicts the risk of cardiovascular disease over a 5-year period. In 2001, Reaven's group published an even more striking follow-up result from the same cohort ( 1. Next, they waited 6 years and watched who developed a variety of diseases over that period. As in the previous study, they divided the volunteers into thr...
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Whole Health Source: Food Reward Friday
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Friday, June 19, 2015. This week's lucky winner. the Pizza Hut Hot Dog Bites pizza! What's up with adding hot dogs to other junk foods these days? Is there something about ground-up nostrils that gives pizza crust a certain je ne sais quoi. Something tells me that Pizza Hut is trying to pump up its flat-lining sales by taking the Hardee's approach- laying aside all health concerns and trying to maximize food reward by piling on more grease and processed meats. Image credit: Pizza Hut. Every period of tim...
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Whole Health Source: July 2015
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Saturday, July 25, 2015. Refined Sugar Worsens Blood Lipid Markers of Cardiovascular Disease. The hypothesis that refined dietary sugar is harmful to the cardiovascular system isnt new. In 1972, British physiologist and nutrition researcher John Yudkin published a classic book called Pure, White, and Deadly. Which argued, among other things, that refined sugar is harmful to the cardiovascular system. Yet at the time, the supporting data were weak, and the hypothesis was never taken very seriou...Peter ...
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Whole Health Source: December 2014
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Friday, December 26, 2014. This weeks lucky winner. Cheesecake Factory carrot cake! Labels: Food reward Fridays. Tuesday, December 16, 2014. In this post, Ill examine the possible relationship between meat intake and type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of diabetes, and it is strongly linked to lifestyle factors. Trowell and Burkitt, 1981):. Friday, December 12, 2014. This weeks lucky winner. Pumpkin pie! Labels: Food reward Fridays. Friday, December 5, 2014. By Richard B. Lee. 160;I...
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Whole Health Source: Flu Season is Here
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Monday, March 7, 2011. Flu Season is Here. I've noticed everyone around me getting sick lately (I seem to have become mostly immune to colds and the flu in the last couple of years), so I took a look at Google Flu Trends. Lo and behold, the United States is currently near peak flu incidence for the 2010-2011 season. Here's a graph from Flu Trends. This year's trend is in dark blue:. Flu Trends also has data for individual US states and a number of other countries. March 7, 2011 at 9:34 PM. I recently rev...
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Whole Health Source: Food Reward Friday
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Friday, July 3, 2015. This week's luck winner. soy sauce! Food Reward Friday isn't just about culinary monstrosities created by profit-hungry corporations. It's also about the everyday items, lurking in all of our pantries, which increase the reward value of our diet and sometimes cause us to overeat. With each technological advance, the link between reward value and nutritional value became weaker. MSG is the culmination of this trend- it's pure flavor but it contains virtually no nutritional value&...
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Whole Health Source: April 2015
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Monday, April 27, 2015. New Study Strengthens the Case that LDL Causes Heart Disease. There is little remaining doubt in the scientific/medical community that high levels of LDL, so-called bad cholesterol, cause heart disease. Yet in some alternative health circles, the debate continues. A new study adds substantially to the evidence that LDL plays a causal role in heart disease. Wednesday, April 22, 2015. Do Slower-digesting Carbohydrates Make Us Feel More Full? Friday, April 17, 2015. My Buddy and Me.
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