Homeostatic and hedonic signals interact in the regulation of food intake

In this 2018 meta-analysis, Evers et al. (2018) planned to analyze the impact of emotions on eating in both healthy individuals and patients with eating disorders. The researchers gathered 56 experimental studies on the causal effect of emotions on eating behavior, and performed separate meta-analyses for negative and positive emotions. Also investigated was the degree […]

According to Emilien & Hollis (2017), we need to fully understand the factors that modulate people’s dietary behaviors not only because food choices are linked with risk of developing certain chronic diseases and some forms of cancer but industrial food production is believed to be unsustainable and greatly contribute to the greenhouse gas emission. There […]