Study Identifies Neural Activity Linked To Food Addiction

Persons with an addictive-like eating behavior appear to have greater neural activity in certain regions of the brain similar to substance dependence, including elevated activation in reward circuitry in response to food cues, according to a report posted online today that will appear in the August print issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals…

FDA Wants YOUR Input On New Restaurant, Vending Calorie Label Recos

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration have made it available for you to provide input on the new caloric recommendations it has made this week concerning fast food chains and vending machines. See below for how you can be a part of the proposed new rules that can educate your decisions as you try to stick to the on the average recommended 2,000 calorie a day intake…

Diet Dogma Misguided, Study Reveals

Advising obese and overweight patients to lose weight does more harm than good, according to a recent study in Nutrition Journal, an online scientific publication. The article ranks as one of the publication’s most “highly accessed” and has generated a storm of controversy among health professionals…

What Is BPA (Bisphenol A)? Is BPA Harmful?

Bisphenol A, often known as BPA is a chemical found in hard plastics and the coatings of food and drinks cans which can behave in a similar way to estrogen and other hormones in the human body…

Link Between Vitamin D Levels And Blood Vessel Health

A lack of vitamin D, even in generally healthy people, is linked with stiffer arteries and an inability of blood vessels to relax, research from the Emory/Georgia Tech Predictive Health Institute has found.