If your cronies tend to opt for high-calorie, unhealthy foods, you probably will too. That’s the conclusion from a recent study published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. “The evidence reviewed here is consistent with the idea that eating behaviors can be transmitted socially,” Eric Robinson, lead investigator of the study, …
Office workers who put their physical activity goals in writing are more likely to exercise, according to a new study. Finnish researchers found that workers who made a written commitment that was made into a contract and co-signed with the researchers were able to decrease muscle inactivity time by 33 minutes a day and increase …
The advertising industry has long held the ideal that thin, attractive women can sell anything by way of sex appeal. However, a recent study from Warwick Business School found that using skinny models in ad campaigns may actually backfire – discouraging women consumers from buying the very product the model is trying to sell. Pretty …
A study at the University of Granada confirms something many women hate to hear: men like models. But only if they look normal, that is. And while that may be encouraging for women, the study also found that men saw overweight women as being more unpleasant than females did. Sound obvious? Maybe. But the study …
In a large-scale study using data on more than 7,000 participants, researchers from the University of Bristol found that six in 10 13-year-old girls are afraid of getting fat. Only four in 10 boys expressed fear of gaining weight, the research found, and girls were twice as likely as their male peers to be “extremely …
A new study review by researchers at the European Institute of Oncology in Milan, Italy has determined that women with restricted calorie intake due to anorexia nervosa have a lower risk of developing breast cancer. While these results in no way suggest that anorexia nervosa is a beneficial treatment for breast cancer, the devastating eating …
A new research study published in the August 22nd edition of the journal PLoS ONE, has uncovered evidence that persons suffering from anorexia struggle to accurately judge their own body size. Although the study participants with anorexia were unable to accurately judge the size of their own bodies, they did not appear to exhibit the …
A new study published in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology has provided experimental evidence for opposite brain reward responses in individuals with obesity and anorexia. The researchers wanted to determine whether or not rewards are perceived differently by the brain in persons suffering from eating disorders such as anorexia. They suspected that obese individuals would demonstrate a …
A new study by researchers at the University of Colorado School of Medicine has determined that the reward circuits in the brains of anorexic women are sensitized, whereas the reward circuits in the brains of overweight or obese women are desensitized. This may result in different eating behavior patterns related to motivation and reward, as …
A 23-year study conducted by researchers at the National Institute on Aging determined that restricting the number of calories consumed did not increase the lifespan of rhesus monkeys. Rhesus monkeys possess a similar genetic code to humans, and they have a comparable physiology and median lifespan. Experimental results gained from using rhesus monkeys have useful …
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