Brain Health Archives

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Cocoa Flavanols Benefits: Yay for Heart, No for Brain?

Nutrition research in recent decades has moved with great interest towards investigating the health effects of non-nutritive compounds. Such compounds are biologically active, but are...

Posted in Macronutrients Research, Nutrition Research

Weight Loss Research: Brain MRI Scans, Food Cravings, and Weight Regulation

Two systems are commonly referred to in the neurobiology of eating and obesity: the "homeostatic" and "hedonic" systems. Homeostatic systems regulate eating relative to energy...

Posted in Nutrition & Brain Health, Nutrition Research

Zinc & Brain Health: Mechanisms and Depression

In the early 1960s, a series of case reports related zinc deficiency to stunted growth and sexual maturation in both male and female adolescents. It...

Posted in Micronutrient Nutrition, Nutrition & Brain Health