Metabolic Syndrome Treatment: Culture, Personal Choice, or Brain Alteration?
Metabolic syndrome is the name for collective disorders caused by overnutrition. Some symptoms associated with metabolic syndrome include: Obesity Insulin resis...
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Late Night Television and Obesity
If you have ever had trouble sleeping, you most likely watched late-night television in order to fall asleep. The commercials televised in the wee hours of the...
Addiction: A choice, a disease, or a different problem altogether
Addiction today is such a common issue, and everyone seems to have a different take. People talk about whether it’s a disease or choice holding to their convict...
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...
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...
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...