Thank you, cheese-us. Multiple studies have found that consuming ultra-processed foods like chips, ice cream and pizza can ...

It's easy to assume people with obesity eat more because they simply love food more. However, new research suggests the opposite. In fact, the more weight you gain, the less pleasure your brain ...

Psychology says people who eat healthy early in the day but crave junk food by dinner may be influenced by decision fatigue, ego depletion, reward seeking, and emotional eating.

Why do some people lose the joy of eating, even when surrounded by irresistible foods? UC Berkeley researchers have uncovered a surprising brain mechanism that explains this paradox. They found that a ...

Before I had kids, I worked in The Children’s Eating Lab at Penn State University. As a young, idealistic, somewhat naïve graduate student, I developed all sorts of ideas about how I would feed my ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The government is introducing a ban on the targeting of junk food adverts at children (Alamy/PA) Just five minutes of exposure to ...

The pleasure we get from eating junk food — the dopamine rush from crunching down on salty, greasy French fries and a luscious burger — is often blamed as the cause of overeating and rising obesity ...