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Microbiota composition is linked to both positive and negative aspects of mental health A large-scale study in Belgium and the Netherlands found links between the abundance of certain groups of gut bacteria species and mental health outcomes. Faecalibacterium and...
Study Overview A study in Israel followed changes in food craving, restrained eating, hunger, and negative emotions within a representative sample of the population over a span of 10 days. The findings revealed that restrained eating is the central link...
Introduction The past several decades have seen the rise of an obesity pandemic that is ongoing worldwide. While obese individuals were quite rare just a century ago, 2015-2018 estimates for the U.S. state that more than two-thirds of the adult...
A recent study conducted in Austria used the method of experience sampling to examine the links between hunger and mood. Researchers asked participants to report their hunger and mood five times per day. Results showed that participants reported greater anger,...
Editor’s Note: The study of nutritional psychology (NP) involves exploring the influence of diet on psychological, cognitive, behavioral, perceptual, interoceptive, and psychosocial functioning and mental health. It also includes the reverse —which is exploring how our psychological, behavioral, and psychosocial...
