Millions of students at all grade levels, from elementary to high school to college, will head back to school and many times this is met with mixed emotions. Not because the “summer fun” has ended, but because school adds new pressures into the mix, with many kids focusing on trying to be popular, and some just to even fit in…

Ezlopitant, a compound known to suppress craving for alcohol in humans, was shown to decrease consumption of sweetened water by rodents in a study by researchers at the Ernest Gallo Clinic and research Center, which is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco…

Commenting on the report from Age UK claiming that one in three nurses would not trust the NHS to care for an elderly relative, deputy policy director Jo Webber said the NHS has made huge strides on nutrition but more still remains to be done…

Sovereign health of California, a premier behavioral health treatment center located in San Clemente, California, announced that it has further expanded its evidence-based services by adding a neurofeedback component to its comprehensive treatment program…

One underlying cause that surprises many women during treatment for an eating disorder is the relationship an adolescent girl has with her mother, according to Catherine Weigel Foy, a family therapist at Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center, a leading eating disorder center…

For college students, the campus dining hall offers a tantalizing feast: ice-cream sundaes every night, thirty varieties of cereal and a limitless supply of french fries. “It’s like a smorgasborg on a cruise ship,” said Cynthia Bulik, PhD, director of the Eating disorders Program at the UNC School of Medicine…

New animal research reveals mechanism that links memory and feeding behavior with leptin, a hormone released from fat cells research presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB), the foremost society for research into all aspects of eating and drinking behavior, finds that the hormone leptin reduces food intake, in part, by ac…

New research finds that the brains of overweight people are less sensitive to feelings of hunger when responding to the smell and taste of food, compared to healthy weight individuals research presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB), the foremost society for research into all aspects of eating and drinking behavior, finds tha…

Food presented in a virtual reality (VR) environment causes the same emotional responses as real food…

The eating habits of children and adolescents are studied in one of the Abstracts published Online by The Lancet, with the disturbing findings that one in four children miss breakfast, one in 10 is anaemic, and one in 17 is stunted. Furthermore, 2% are underweight and 15% are either overweight or obese…