Nutrition
- Brain
As teens gain weight, they find high-fat foods less pleasurable
Teens who gained excess weight showed less activity in the brain’s reward center when viewing or tasting foods with lots of fat.
- Health & Medicine
Youthful rebellion leads some teens to eat better
Once 8th graders learned how food advertisements have been developed to influence them, many rebelled — and started eating healthier.
- Health & Medicine
Why sleeping in on the weekend won’t work
A new study found that using weekends to catch up on missed sleep won’t erase health risks due to lost weekday sleep. It may even worsen things.
- Chemistry
Ham bone broth could be a tonic for the heart
Health and fitness websites claim that drinking bone broth is a miracle cure. Here’s what some new research has to say about that.
- Health & Medicine
Could eating clay help manage weight?
A new study suggests that clay could help soak up fat in the gut. In rats, it works as well as a weight-loss drug.
- Health & Medicine
Why can’t bugs be grub?
Insects are tasty and nutritious, and raising them is good for the planet. So how can Westerners be convinced to give insects a taste?
- Health & Medicine
Many food supplements unlawfully contain drugs
The most common medicines tainting these products were usually ones that doctors prescribe for weight loss, for muscle building or to boost a man’s sex drive.
- Health & Medicine
Explainer: What are proteins?
In the body, proteins act as biochemical machines to carry out the work of cells.
- Health & Medicine
Crickets for breakfast?
In a small trial, levels of beneficial gut bacteria rose in young adults who ate a breakfast that included crickets every day for two weeks.
- Brain
Body heat due to exercise may reduce hunger
Why aren’t animals hungry after a workout? Brain cells that control appetite may sense the exercise heat — and keep you out of the kitchen, a new study finds.
- Brain
Taste good? Senses inform the brain — but don’t tell everyone the same thing
Whether something tastes appetizing depends on what a host of different sensory nerves collectively tell the brain. Warning: Sometimes they aren’t dependable — or even truthful.
- Health & Medicine
Explainer: Taste and flavor are not the same
What’s behind a food’s flavor? More than what we taste, it turns out.
