High fructose corn syrup-moderate fat diet potentiates anxio-depressive behavior and alters ventral striatal neuronal signaling

While consuming diets high in sugar and fats lower taste sensations, alters food choices, and facilitates feeding, May et al. (2020) planned to find out how these changes influence eating by using a genetically tractable (modifiable) organism called D. melanogaster. The scientists monitored the activity of a specific set of neurons in the organism referred […]

This 2018 review examined the literature on “old” and “newly” discovered influencing factors of reward-inducing overeating and eating addiction, analysing for instance high-fat palatable foods and dietary lipids on endocannabinoid formation and their potential to derange the feeding homeostasis. Other topics discussed include endocannabinoid signaling as a key mechanism acting both at hypothalamic and mesolimbic […]