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A study published in JAMA Network Open examined associations among epigenetic age, added sugar intake, and several indices of dietary health in a group of women. Participants who ate healthier tended to have lower epigenetic age, i.e., their cells seemed...
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A narrative review published in Nutrition Reviews suggests that there are two distinct types of hunger experiences – general and specific. General hunger is a desire to eat triggered by temporal or interoceptive cues. Specific hunger is hunger for specific...
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A review paper published in Foods proposed a new framework for analyzing flavor perception, focusing on sweetness The framework is based on whether sensory information is seen as originating from within or from outside the body of the person perceiving...
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A conceptual paper published in the Journal of Metabolic Health proposes that there are five stages of addiction to ultra-processed foods. In the first, pre-addiction stage, consumption of sugar and fat leads to increased activity in the regions of the...
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A study on mice published in Cell Metabolism found that daily oscillations in gut microbiota composition regulate natural daily patterns of corticosterone release. Depletion of gut microbiota results in impairments in stress responsivity that are specific to certain times of...
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