Junk Food May Be More Appealing To Tired Brains
A new study that used brain scans of people who had not had enough sleep suggests junk food may be more appealing to tired brains. Scientists found that when normal weight volunteers looked at unhealthy food during a period of sleep restriction, the reward centers in their brains were more active than when they looked at the pictures after having slept regularly…
June 11, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: after-having, brains, junk-food, more-appealing, on call diets, pictures, reward, sleep-suggests, the-pictures, the-reward, their-brains, unhealthy-food
High Levels Of Omega-3 Fatty Acids Found In Breast Milk Of Amerindian Women
Working with researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, anthropologists at UC Santa Barbara have found high levels of beneficial omega-3 fatty acids in the breast milk of economically impoverished Amerindian woman as compared to women in the United States. Their research appears in the current issue of the journal Maternal and Child Nutrition…
June 11, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: amerindian, breast, child, current, fatty-acids, high-levels, journal, maternal, santa, santa-barbara, the-breast, the-current, the-journal, university
