One great mystery in this nutritional debate is how the Harvard School of Public Health and their epidemiologists keep finding such links between the omega 6 polyunsaturates and all manner of good health. My confusion comes in part because in all likelyhood the most omega 6 fats will be eaten by people eating a load of processed crap who by all accounts should not be the healithiest. If the epidemiologists...
Jumat, 28 September 2012
Sabtu, 22 September 2012
I'm doing a little studying up on binge eating and the brain, so this post is more of a notation aid for me. So if you aren't a neuroscientist, you might want to just listen to this music.From "Dissecting components of reward: 'liking', 'wanting', and 'learning''."Rewards ranging from sweet taste, IV cocaine, winning money and smiley face activate many brain regions (orbitofrontal cortex,...
Jumat, 21 September 2012
At the beginning of September, there was a bit of a twitter about this new paper in Neurology. In fact, some folks emailed me links and tweeted it to my attention. And the paper turns out to be very interesting. You can tell by the way it was written that the researchers were pretty stoked at the results, and that doesn't always sneak...
Jumat, 14 September 2012
Terribly busy. My oldest child went to kindergarten. I swear she was a baby just yesterday.And she was auditioning for Jean-Pierre Jeunet movies.Actually, much of her life has been something like the following:Your long summer is over, kiddo. Enjoy kindergarten!After a long podcast hiatus, I went on to Doc Femento last week....
Jumat, 07 September 2012
You know that scene in a movie when the hero and heroine dive out of the way of gunfire, or outrun an explosion, or in other way avoid imminent demise. They end up in each other's arms, a tender smile, then the kiss. Of course it's all neuroscience and pheromones at that point.Maurice Jarre, Lawrence of ArabiaSex and fear live in an area rather deep...
Senin, 03 September 2012
That's a bit of a sensational title. But hey, I guess sensationalism works in the blogosphere these days (or forever in the past and forevermore), and I'm not proud. Hacienda. Savage.Creatine! We love creatine. There's lots of it in skeletal muscle, which we omnivores tend to eat and love because steak is oh so yummy. Vegetarians are low in it and more apt to have mental...
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