Promoting healthy eating in adults: An evaluation of pleasure-oriented versus health-oriented messages

Bray & Carek (2020) presents the gene that is partly involved in the genetic processes crucial in determining a person’s sensitivity to bitter tastes – TAS2R3. The review explains how this gene affects dietary habits, and discusses the strategies employed to persuade people to include more fruits and vegetables in their diets. The authors believe […]

Park et al. (2020) experimented on 30 individuals with type 2 diabetes (where the body doesn’t utilise insulin) to test whether cognition can affect plasma glucose levels. All the participants were given a beverage with the same ingredients but the drink was labelled with deceptive nutritional information. The subjects’ sugar levels in the blood were […]