Cross-sectional examination of ultra-processed food consumption and adverse mental health symptoms

Food addiction (FA) is a term used to describe hedonic eating behaviors that involve consuming foods of high palatability in amounts that exceed the body’s everyday energy needs (i.e., foods heavy in salt, fat, and sugar). According to current beliefs, FA and other drug addictions have shared brain underpinnings as well as behavioral parallels, and […]

This 2020 study retrieved data from the Berlin Aging Study II (955 participants) in order to examine the longitudinal relation between glucose regulation with the well-being of individuals. Growth models were applied using insulin resistance as an index of ability to regulate glucose, which revealed that poor glucose management (higher insulin resistance) was consistently associated […]