The cognitive control of eating and body weight: It’s more than what you “think”

In this work, Szypula (2021) investigated the meal-recall effect, which states that recalling a recent meal lowers later snack consumption. According to a literature review, the meal-recall effect may be caused by a brief improvement in interoceptive capacity. This improvement may enable people to interpret lingering satiety cues more clearly and distinguish unclear gastrointestinal signs. […]

According to certain theories, green tea extract may improve cognitive function, which has positive therapeutic ramifications. However, it is still uncertain what brain processes underlie this alleged enhancement of cognition by green tea extract. This double-blind, counterbalanced, within-subject study by Schmidt et al. (2014) aimed to determine if green tea extract consumption modifies effective brain […]