Emotional eating

Since the Power of Food Scale (PFS) was developed as a quantitative measure of hedonic hunger (the focus and desire to consume foods for pleasure purposes without physical hunger), this 2018 narrative review analyzes the ability of PFS to assess the term it was designed for. An extra aim was to define hedonic hunger more […]

The primary natural reinforcer that influences eating decisions is food. The brain receives internal sensory information about nutritional value from the gut through the vagus nerve; nevertheless, little is known about the cellular and molecular underpinnings of reward circuits unique to particular macronutrients. In this study by McDougle et al. (2024), the authors track calcium […]