SUGAR may be sweet, but its impact on your brain is not always so pleasant. While it provides a quick energy boost, excessive sugar consumption can negatively affect brain function, mood, and ...
They found a specific population of neurons in the mouse brain that encode memories for sugar and fat, profoundly impacting food intake and body weight. Can memory influence what and how much we eat?
The emerging understanding of the importance of gut microflora (the microbiome) on brain function inspired them to suspect that bacteria in the gut might differ in mice craving sugar. When they ...