Food preferences altered by specific brain pathways
People with a gene defect have greater preferences for high-fat, but not high sugar foods, drawing a direct link between food choice and genetic variants.
October 5, 2016 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: between-food, direct-link, gene-defect, high-sugar, nutrition, oncalldiets
Another reason for wine lovers to toast resveratrol
Resveratrol found in red wine could help counteract the negative impact of high fat/high sugar diets.Red wine lovers have a new reason to celebrate.
May 16, 2016 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: high-fat, high-sugar, negative, negative-impact, new-reason, nutrition, nutritional counseling, oncalldiets, red-wine, wine-lovers
Preference For Junk Food Acquired By Offspring During Pregnancy
A new research report published online in The FASEB Journal suggests that pregnant mothers who eat high sugar and high fat diets have babies who are likely to become junk food junkies themselves. According to the report, which used rats, this happens because the high fat and high sugar diet leads to changes in the fetal brain’s reward pathway, altering food preferences…
March 24, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: altering-food, become-junk, food-junkies, high-sugar, journal, new-research, nutrition, on call diets, reward-pathway, sugar-diet
