Leptin helps hungry mice choose sex over food
To eat or to mate — that is the question (and the answer is: moderately hungry mice choose to mate). Researchers publishing in the journal Cell Metabolism on Thursday February 23 show that hungry mice prioritize interacting with members of the opposite sex over eating and drinking when their brains are stimulated with leptin, an […]
Opinion | ‘We’re So Hungry for Organs Right Now’: What We Heard This Week
“We’re so hungry for organs right now that we are pushing all the limits.” — Wes Ely, MD, MPH, of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, on transplant surgeons experimenting with a kind of partial resurrection of deceased patients in attempts to harvest more organs. “There’s no world in which sexual abusers should be doctors.” — Carmen […]
3 Tricks That’ll Help Your Morning Yogurt Keep You Full Past 10 A.M.
A cup of yogurt may seem like the perfect on-the-go breakfast, but if you’re hungry again by midmorning, you might be making some basic yogurt mistakes. First, let’s be clear that we love — love! — yogurt, in all its many permutations, flavors and countries of origin. The experts we spoke to agree it’s a […]
Eating for hunger or pleasure? Regulating these feeding behaviors involves different brain circuits
Many times we eat, not because we are hungry, but because of social pressures or because the food is so appetizing, that, even though we are full, we just want another bite. Overeating, whether it is guided by hunger or pleasure, typically leads to obesity, which affects about 42% of the adults in the U.S., […]