Editorial: impact of diet on learning, memory and cognition

This 2019 review identified a few of the important cognitive processes in the control of energy intake and body weight, summarises evidence demonstrating the possibly harmful effects excess consumption of the Western Diet (WD) have on these cognitive processes, and also reviewed the association between the WD and the emergence of pathophysiologies in the hippocampus […]

The increase in the prevalence of obesity has led to an increasingly negative impact on population health. One of the reasons behind the rise in obesity is the opting-out of consuming healthy food, favoring cheaper, energy-dense, unhealthy food options instead. This conscious choice is also motivated by food cravings, where cravings were shown to become […]