sciencenewsnet.in

You Are What Your Food Influencer Is Eating: UNLV Social Media Experts Team on Mukbang Study

October 4, 2023 sarah JonasExpert Pitch

Ever find yourself inexplicably sucked into (another!) video of social media influencer downing a massive feast of 100 different kinds of shrimp? You can’t scroll past. And before you know it, you’re craving crustaceans, making reservations at that new seafood restaurant, and searching for recipes. We’ve got one word for you: mukbang.

Brain’s ‘appetite control centre’ different in people who are overweight or living with obesity

August 7, 2023 sarah JonasResearch Results

Cambridge scientists have shown that the hypothalamus, a key region of the brain involved in controlling appetite, is different in the brains of people who are overweight and people with obesity when compared to people who are a healthy weight.

Feeling Anxious or Blue? Ultra-processed Foods May be to Blame

August 25, 2022 sarah JonasResearch Results

A study measuring mild depression, number of mental unhealthy days and number of anxious days in 10,359 adults 18 and older found those who consumed the most ultra-processed foods as compared with those who consumed the least amount had statistically significant increases in the adverse mental health symptoms of mild depression, “mentally unhealthy days” and “anxious days.” They also had significantly lower rates of reporting zero “mentally unhealthy days” and zero “anxious days.” Findings are generalizable to the entire U.S. as well as other Western countries with similar ultra-processed food intakes.