Chronic stress exposure may affect the brain’s response to high calorie food cues and predispose to obesogenic eating habits

Amino acids found in green tea benefits, namely, L-theanine (L-THE), which has been linked to a number of health advantages, including enhancements of mood and cognition and a decrease in stress- and anxiety-like symptoms. In human randomized controlled trials, this systematic review by Williams et al. (2020) assessed the impact of oral dietary supplements containing […]

This 2007 review analyzed human and animal literatures to determine how different types of psychological stress affects diet. Adam & Epel (2017) consider a theoretical model of reward-based stress eating, which highlights how cortisol and the reward circuitry are involved in the motivation of consuming high caloric foods and demonstrates potential neuroendocrine mediators in the […]