What Properties Make a Food "Addictive"? by Sked Blog Ads09.22Although the concept of food addiction remains controversial, there's no doubt that specific foods can provoke addiction-like behaviors ...Read More
Why Do We Overeat? A Neurobiological Perspective by Sked Blog Ads16.15I just posted a narrated Powerpoint version of my talk " Why Do We Overeat? A Neurobiological Perspective " to YouTube. Here'...Read More
Is Refined Carbohydrate Addictive? by Sked Blog Ads16.03[Note: in previous versions, I mixed up "LGI" and "HGI" terms in a couple of spots. These are now corrected. Thanks to...Read More
The Neurobiology of the Obesity Epidemic by Sked Blog Ads19.00I recently read an interesting review paper by Dr. Edmund T. Rolls titled "Taste, olfactory and food texture reward processing in the b...Read More
Food Variety, Calorie Intake, and Weight Gain by Sked Blog Ads19.00Let'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
Book Review: Salt, Sugar, Fat by Sked Blog Ads19.00Michael 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