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Brain’s Food Smell Circuitry Might Cause Overeating
A miscommunication between brain regions may lead some people to eat too much. No doubt, the smell of fresh-baked bread is appetizing when you’re hungry. At the same time, it can be less alluring if you’re already feeling stuffed. That’s due to the interaction between two different parts of the brain involving sense of smell…
Low-Fat Diets and Overeating
A controlled feeding study at the National Institutes of Health challenges the idea that low-fat diets per se spur on people to overeat.
Passive Overeating
A watershed study challenges the common view that people are prone to mindlessly overeating high-energy foods.
Overeating Ultraprocessed Foods
Ever wonder why so many people find themselves overeating ultraprocessed foods? It turns out texture plays an important role. In a crossover study published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 50 healthy-weight adults consumed different eat-as-much-as-you-want lunches (on separate occasions), each consisting of one of four food components: “soft minimally processed,” “hard minimally processed,”…
How to Stop Hedonic Eating
Researchers have identified another way that working up a sweat could help trim the waistline: Exercise can put the brakes on hedonic eating.
Overeating With Digital Distractions
Stuffing in food while doing something perceptually demanding makes it more difficult to notice fullness, potentially leading to overeating.
Social Jet Lag and Overeating
People who have different sleep patterns on the weekends than they do during the workweek may experience “social jet lag.”
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