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High fat diet could reduce the brain’s ability to regulate food intake

Posted on January 28, 2023 by Hippocratic Post

Regularly eating a high fat/calorie diet could reduce the brain’s ability to regulate calorie intake. New research in rats published in The Journal of Physiology found that after short periods of being fed a high fat/high calorie diet, the brain adapts to react to what is being ingested and reduces the amount of food eaten […]

The science of overeating

Posted on January 12, 2018 by Rebecca Wallersteiner

What happens to your body due to overeating? The average person’s stomach can cope with around one and one-and-a-half litres of food before feeling the urge to throw up, but can stretch to accommodate four times that much before a rupture occurs. Your stomach expands like a balloon and pushes against the other organs making […]