Emotional eating

While current and traditional models have implicated the hedonic qualities of food as driving overeating and also have implied that subliminal signals arising from the gut would curb one’s uncontrolled desire for calories, in this review De Araujo et al. (2020) presents evidence from animal and human studies of a completely different model for food […]

Since neuroimaging studies indicated obesity-related differences in the brain during resting state, Osadchiy et al. (2019) suggested an imbalance between homeostatic and reward aspects of ingestive behavior may contribute to obesity and food addiction. This 2019 study investigated how early life adversity (ELA), the reward network and food addiction interact with one another, while another […]