Stop Supersizing and Start Exercising
“Americans, they’re so overweight.” “Our country is getting bigger and bigger. We were much thinner when I was a kid.” “Our food is so processed, but fast-food ...
Tag: obesity
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...
Once Hungry, Forever Eating: The Neurological Impacts of Poor Diet on Obesity
The Obesity Problem According to the CDC, more than 1/3 of adults in the U.S. are obese. Why is this a problem? Why is obesity rising? Could we blame it on Amer...
Science & Stigma With Obesity
Obesity is a common and serious health issue in the United States. According to the CDC, more than 1/3 of US adults have obesity and it’s on the rise. Obesity p...
Too Much Fat in Your Diet?
From being too busy to simply being lazy, it is really easy to decide against cooking breakfast, lunch, or dinner and going out to eat instead. With McDonalds a...
Your Brain Is Giving Itself the Munchies
You may have heard from a friend of a friend that THC, the main ingredient in cannabis, causes the munchies. That’s because it’s a turbocharged version of a br...
Should We Find a Pill to Cure Obesity?
Nowadays, pharmaceutical companies often try to develop specialized drugs for all kinds of diseases and addictions. In most cases I would say that this is a goo...
How the Reward System Contributes to Obesity
Obesity is a growing problem for our country here in America. But eating may actually have the ability to trigger our reward system and make us more likely to w...
Obesity and the Brain
Hypothalamus It has been recently discovered that unlike inflammation in the in the peripheral tissues, inflammation in the brain due to high fat intake occurs ...
Obesity: Social Issue or Brain Disease?
Defined as the excessive amount of body fat, obesity has historically been described as a physiological disease. However, recent research has challenged this cl...