Obesity – More Than Just Food and Activity Levels
Most people know that the initiative of former First Lady Michelle Obama was Let’s Move. One of her goals was to help a new generation of kids grow up knowing t...
Month: November 2019
What Comes First? Bacon or the Brain
Bacon wrapped steak, bacon wrapped burger, bacon wrapped pork chop so why not a bacon wrapped brain? Literally anything can be wrapped in bacon. Even though bac...
Eating to Live or Living to Eat?
Artstract by Allegra Bentrim Leptin and Insulin in Metabolic Homeostasis Recent neuroscience has uncovered mechanisms of how unhealthy eating habits affect our ...
A Christmas Carol and Inflammatory Signaling
It’s finally November, nearly Thanksgiving, time for stuffing, turkey, and other delicious, unhealthy foods. Then after it all, we can pack it up and break out ...
“Things I Wish People Knew* Concussions”
*About (See that’s the concussion doing it’s thing) For this blog, I will again include potential symptoms as well as neuroscientific aspects behind...
The SAD American Diet
Obesity rates are skyrocketing in America today and people can point many directions for the cause. Maybe we’ve just gotten lazy? Maybe we don’t have enough tim...
Obesity Below the Surface
Obesity and Inflammation Inflammation occurs in response to any kind of harmful stimulus. Think of when you get a scra...
Obesity: Blame the Brain
While diet fads come and go, in the end physicians typically boil there advice down to a simple statement; burn more calories than you eat and you’ll lose weigh...
The Brain on a High Fat Diet
Do you ever crave food to the point where you are pretty sure you are addicted? Well, turns out you might actually be addicted to food. Recent studies have conn...
Keep Me in Coach, I’m Ready to Play
In America, it seems that athletics is just as stressed, if not more than, as academics. We live in a culture where professional athletes are praised and put in...