Weight Loss and Food Addiction

Certain foods—especially those with high fructose corn syrup (HFCS); fats; most processed foods, sweets and salty snacks—meet the criteria of drugs of abuse and their effects on the brain: loss of control over the substance, tolerance, withdrawal, and continued engagement with the addictive substance despite potentially dangerous outcomes. Yet, the notion that some food causes addiction by stimulating the release …

Diet, Obesity, & Metabolic Syndrome

Most relevant literature now links obesity, lipotoxicity, and metabolic syndrome. Excess body fat seems to trigger the release of toxic substances by adipose tissue leading to a proinflammatory-prothrombotic environment and the development of insulin resistance resulting in cardiovascular disease and diabetes. However, how each body tolerates excess fat is key. While some moderately overweight people show no signs of disease, …

Diet, Weight Loss & Microbiota

Neither the mutually beneficial relationship between some microorganisms and their mammal hosts nor the correlation between host disease and disturbance of such harmony is novel. Recent advances in genetics, however, have provided scientists with new tools that shed a brighter light on the different functions of groups of bacteria and their interaction with each other and the host. Researchers are …

Children of the Corn Diet

In the past few decades, corn has been integrated in almost all food products on any market shelf. Whether the harm recently ascribed to corn is due to excessive consumption or genetic modification or both is a touchy subject. However, I predict some brave scientists will set the record straight, hopefully, in the near future. Following the destruction of the …

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