Brain scans suggest people can learn to like healthy foods
Brain scans of participants showed higher activation of reward centers shifted from high-calorie toward low-calorie food over a 6-month structured behavioral weight-loss program.
September 2, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: activation, behavioral-weight-loss, food-over, nutritional counseling, reward-centers, showed-higher, toward-low-calorie
Possible Approaches To Protect Those At Risk For Huntington’s Disease
In Huntington’s disease, abnormally long strands of glutamine in the huntingtin (Htt) protein, called polyglutamines, cause subtle changes in cellular functions that lead to neurodegeneration and death. Studies have shown that the activation of the heat shock response, a cellular reaction to stress, doesn’t work properly in Huntington’s disease…
June 20, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: abnormally-long, activation, cause-subtle, cellular-functions, huntingtin, huntington, nutritional counseling, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, shock-response, the-heat, the-huntingtin
