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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...
Within nutritional psychology, we explore the dietary and nutritional elements influencing the diet-mental health relationship. This involves identifying the processes and mechanisms through which our diet and dietary intake patterns influence our brain, behavior, and experience. Sugar intake is a...
A neuroimaging study identified neural activity patterns specific to obese persons. These patterns allowed researchers to differentiate between obese and non-obese individuals based on the characteristics of their brain activity and psychological test scores with 77% accuracy. It was also...
