Why We Can't Stop Eating Frosting From The Can. You know when you're eating frosting straight out of the can and you're thinking, "I don't even really like this flavor," but you keep on eating? (It's a dark, but human, moment. We understand.) Well, now one study is offering an explanation for why. Compared to calorie-free foods, foods with calories in them hit the human brain with big effects, even if people don't appear to consciously like the flavors all that much. There appear to be two unrelated brain circuits that kick into gear when people consume things, Dana Small, a Yale University psychologist who studies people's responses to food and one of the scientists who performed this study, tells Popular Science.
There's one that's related to consciously liking flavors. Small's study comes after a few years of research into mice, rats and fruit flies have found that the animals are able to sense nutrition independently of taste. Over time, animals learn to prefer mixtures containing real sugar instead of artificial sweetener. Sensing Calories Without Taste. Rodents and fruit flies appear to be able to sense nutrients even when they can’t taste the food they’re eating.
Now, researchers are trying to figure out how. WIKIMEDIA, TIIA MONTOScientists have engineered fruit flies that can’t taste sugar, and, at first, the insects will show no preference between sugar water and plain water. But after 15 hours without food, the flies start to choose the sugar water, seemingly sensing the fact that the liquid contains life-sustaining calories even though they can’t taste anything.
“They sense calories in a way that is somehow independent of tasting the calorie itself,” said Ivan de Araujo, a neurobiologist at Yale University. The experiment described above, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2011, is just one example of several recent studies that have found that mice, rats, and fruit flies have sensors, separate from taste buds, to detect nutrients. Whether or not humans have a similar sense remains an open question.
Study Points to New Culprit in Heart Disease. FOOD INC. JUNK FOOD RACKET 1 The Reign of Evil Food as a Weapon of War [aka Food Inc. High Corporate (Authoritarian Psychopathy) profit food, sold as 'saving you money' and 'solving world hunger', but the actual agenda is stealing your money while they poison and malnourish you (same thing), along with destroying small farmers------Toxic (GM foodsToxic milk, Bottle-milk Irradiation Pasteurization); low nutrition (Arthritis White Bread Infection & nutrition); low life; poison containing (Pesticides SugarAspartame MSG Cola); cruel to animals (Animal Abuse, which helps Vivisection); deadly to animals (Bovine TB FMD BSE), small farmers (Destroying small farmers Indian suicides FMD suicides); and is environmentally harmful (Pesticides Swine flu 2009).
Obviously, Food Inc fox in charge of Government hen house as you can see here, also in the American food pyramid and treatment of HARVEY W. WILEY, M.D. Mafias: Medical Green Global Warming Drugs Oil War Sex Education Terror Political Financial. Michio Kaku: The Dark Side of Technology. Can a Radical New Treatment Sa. Salt linked to autoimmune diseases. Mario Tama/Getty Images Salt may play a role in the overproduction of immune-system cells that attack an organism's own tissues. The incidence of autoimmune diseases, such as multiple sclerosis and type 1 diabetes, has spiked in developed countries in recent decades.
In three studies published today in Nature, researchers describe the molecular pathways that can lead to autoimmune disease1 and identify one possible culprit that has been right under our noses — and on our tables — the entire time: salt2, 3. To stay healthy, the human body relies on a careful balance: too little immune function and we succumb to infection, too much activity and the immune system begins to attack healthy tissue, a condition known as autoimmunity. But finding the molecular switches that cause the body to overproduce TH17 cells has been difficult, in part because conventional methods of activating native immune cells in the laboratory often harm the cells or alters the course of their development. Wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Seralinial-AnswersCritics-FCT_2013.pdf. Toxicology - Ethoxylated adjuvants of glyphosate-based herbicides are active principles of human cell toxicity.
Volume 313, Issues 2–3, 16 November 2013, Pages 122–128 ToxMix 2011: International Toxicology of Mixtures Conference. A selection of papers. Edited By Jane Ellen Simmons Abstract Pesticides are always used in formulations as mixtures of an active principle with adjuvants. Glyphosate, the active ingredient of the major pesticide in the world, is an herbicide supposed to be specific on plant metabolism. Its adjuvants are generally considered as inert diluents. Keywords Pesticide; Glyphosate; POEA; Adjuvant; Roundup; Human cells Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. Roundup more toxic than officially declared - new study. 1.Monsanto sued small famers to protect seed patents, report says2.New Report Exposes Devastating Impact of Monsanto Practices on U.S. Farmers NOTE: For the full report: sued small famers to protect seed patents, report saysPaul Harris in New YorkThe Guardian, 12 February 2013 *Agricultural giant has won more than $23m from its targets, but one case is being heard at Supreme Court this month The agricultural giant Monsanto has sued hundreds of small farmers in the United States in recent years in attempts to protect its patent rights on genetically engineered seeds that it produces and sells, a new report said on Tuesday.
The report also revealed the dominance that large firms and their genetically altered crops have in the US and global market. Seed Giants vs. U.S. Additionally, Seed Giants vs. The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food. The Worst Lies That Mainstream Nutrition Has Told You. Nutrition is religion. The nutritional advice industry is like the exercise advice industry. Everyone everywhere is doing it wrong, always, and what is "right" this year will kill you next year. There is the further assumption that the human optimum in nutrition and exercise is incredibly narrow and incredibly deep, so hitting them "just right" will result in an enormously long, healthy life, and a tiny deviation will lead to rickets, scurvy and dogs and cats living together.
But evolution doesn't work like that: we are omnivorous scavengers and hunters and gatherers, adapted to make do with all kinds of variations in diet and exercise as we roll around a broad, shallow optimum that doesn't have any secret hidden sweet spot that will greatly prolong health or life. Eat a variety of foods, not too much, not too little, with a lean toward less refined sugars and simple starches. How Food Companies Exploit Americans. Vani Hari (a.k.a. The Food Babe) is a regular contributor on 100 Days of Real Food. To learn more about Vani check her out on “Our Team” page. Thoughts of outrage, unfairness, disbelief, and ultimately grief consumed me while I was doing this investigation.
A list of ingredients that are banned across the globe but still allowed for use here in the American food supply recently made news. The health of Americans is downright grim according to a report just released by the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council. Here is the breakdown for you: More than two thirds of United States citizens are overweight – 33% being obese.32% of children are either obese or overweight.43% of Americans are projected to be obese in 10 years.After smoking, obesity is America’s biggest cause of premature death and is linked to 70% of heart disease and 80% of diabetes cases.And 41% of Americans are projected to get cancer in their lifetime! These reports and statistics scream the word HELP! Pearltrees.