Jacqueline Novak Prefers the Big Bags of Chips
A renowned medical professional and neuroscientist called Dr. Charles Zuker says obesity isn't a metabolic disease, but rather a brain circuit disease and a physical one." By activating the gut-brain axis, which controls our preference for sugar, we're able to satisfy our sweet tooth. Due to the fact that artificial sweeteners don't get absorbed in... See more
Andrew Huberman • Dr. Charles Zuker: The Biology of Taste Perception & Sugar Craving
As always, it appears commerce is the death of art. Decisions are based on what has already been sold to people already buying, not what could sell to people who didn’t even know they needed king crab with XO sauce chips in their life.
Jaya Saxena • Why Are American Chips So Boring?
taken me a long time to realize that part of eating well is making friends with hunger. We are not the starving children. To feel mildly hungry two or three times a day—when you are lucky enough to know that another meal is coming soon—is a good thing. All my life—except when I’d been attempting to lose weight—I’d responded to the gentlest of tummy
... See moreBee Wilson • First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
Very few of us allow ourselves—or our children—to experience the sensation of hunger at all these days. We are semi-sated much of the time, preloaded with nibbles here and there that hardly seem to register as eating.