How sweets can help you stay in shape!
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It may appear counterintuitive but including a little bit of sweets in your meal could help you stop gaining unhealthy weight, new research suggests.
Eating sweet foods causes the brain to form a memory of a meal and this memory can help you better control eating habits, the researchers explained.
Neurons in the dorsal hippocampus, the part of the brain that is critical for episodic memory, are activated by consuming sweets, the study said.
Episodic memory is the memory of autobiographical events experienced at a particular time and place.
"We think that episodic memory can be used to control eating behaviour," said one of the researchers Marise Parent, professor at Georgia State University
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However, the association was not statistically significant. It is interesting to note that intervention groups (mindfulness intervention versus control) did not significantly differ in sweets consumption from baseline to six months, yet control participants consumed more sweets from six to 12 months and had significantly higher fasting glucose levels than those in the mindfulness group. It should also be highlighted that this fasting glucose increase (2.8 mg/dL) was still within normal range. In addition, measures of sweets consumption were given through self-report, and it is said that self-reported dietary intakes are often biased (Thompson, Subar, Loria, Reedy, & Baranowski,
F. According to another research team at Princeton University, you should have a little bit of food containing real sugar when sugar cravings act up. Psychology professor Bart Hoebel indicates that too much dependence on artifical sugars will cause weight gain and obesity. The best you can do is stay away from having too much of any food that is artificially sweetened, like diet soda or food containing artificial sweeteners. (Lowfatdietplan.com)
One of the bigger sacrifices when going on a diet is dessert. While it is nice to have a sweet treat after a long day, many desserts are loaded with calories and low on nutrition. However, you can treat yourself to a delicious snack at the end of the day without the guilt of taking in extra calories, fat and sugar. If you're on a diet and exercise program that is more oriented towards building muscle, these dessert options will be perfect to help sate your sweet tooth.
treats will satisfy your craving for bread and sweets, but actually give you less than
Comparison between the Day of the Dead and Halloween: different ways of paying homage to death. Humanity has always had great fascination with death and this is contrastable in the amount of rituals dedicated to life in the hereafter. Throughout the world, the cult of death is present in different ways, either as a way of reuniting with loved ones, tribute to the gods or mockery. Of all the festivities related to death, Halloween and Day of the Dead are undoubtedly the most striking and popularized. Next we will see a brief comparison between these two parties in order to understand their main differences and divergent meanings.
Healthy snacking can also help you control your appetite. When you consume healthy snacks throughout
Now, in 2015, the number of searches and available information increased from ~334,000 hits to ~32, 200, 00 hits. The idea that food has similar addictive characteristics as drugs that affect the brain is quite controversial. People tend to eat when they are depressed, happy, emotional, celebrating and many other situations because food is easily accessed and not illegal. Research regarding sugar having addictive qualities was conducted in 2010 by the University of Texas and the Oregon Research Institute. Equipped with Haagen-Dazs ice cream and a group of overweight women, the researchers measured the brains reward center activity when shown images of ice cream and when tasting an ice cream milk shake; six months down the road, the group reconvened and the women once again tasted the ice cream. The results were that the woman who had gained weight over the time gap had decreased activity in the striatum, an area of the brain that registers reward, thus needing more to reach a feel good level of satisfaction (Langreth & Stanford, 2011). "The significance of this finding is that these are the same regions of the brain that light up in drug addicts who are show images of drug paraphernalia or drugs" (Wormer & Davis, 2013).
Eating nutritious foods doesn't always mean you have to go out of your way to do so. Switching that afternoon candy bar for a piece of fruit will give you the sweetness you need without the additional calories and fat.
For years the war on drugs has continued to be an issue of high debate and controversy in the United States. These debates and controversies have surrounded issues ranging everywhere from possible solutions for the ever prominent drug problem, to the legalization of certain drugs all together. Although the War on Drugs began its battle many years ago, the effects and implications surrounding it may be more evident today than ever. When people think of the war on drugs and the implications that it presents, they are likely to think of increased violence and increased spending by the government as two of the biggest issues. However, perhaps one of the bigger issues that often gets over looked is the disparate
Primary motivations for eating include to be social, feeling bored, enjoyment, politeness, distraction, and because other people are eating (Adriaanse et al., 2009: 62). Fourteen of the twenty participants stated that they snacked out of boredom – “I get snacky when I’m bored,” Clare told me, “- it’s a pain in the ass!” Only two participants reported that they snacked because they were hungry, and only one individual Tim stated that he snacked out of “pure enjoyment”, which supports the contention that motivational states such as hunger and enjoying the taste of the food may have little influence on the amount that the person eats (Neal et al., 2011: 1429). Lloyd explained that he was “constantly not really hungry” yet, he wanted to “nibble
Memory makes us. It is, to an extent, a collection of unique and personal experiences that we, as individuals, have amassed over our lifetime. It is what connects us to our past and what shapes our present and the future. If we are unable remember the what, when, where, and who of our everyday lives, our level of functioning would be greatly impacted. Memory is defined as or recognized as the “sum or total of what we remember.” Memory provides us the ability to learn and adjust to or from prior experiences. In addition, memory or our ability to remember plays an integral role in the building and sustaining of relationships. Additionally, memory is also a process; it is how we internalize and store our external environment and experiences. It entails the capacity to remember past experiences, and the process of recalling previous experiences, information, impressions, habits and skills to awareness. It is the storage of materials learned and/or retained from our experiences. This fact is demonstrated by the modification, adjustment and/or adaptation of structure or behavior. Furthermore, we as individuals, envision thoughts and ideas of the present through short-term memory, or in our working memory, we warehouse past experiences and learned values in long-term memory, also referred to as episodic or semantic memory. Most importantly, memory is malleable and it is intimately linked to our sense of identity and where we believe we belong in the world.
How has this impacted our health? According to Dr. Barry Popin of the University of North Carolina School of Public Health, studies have shown that people who shift from non calorie drinks to sweetened drinks gain weight, probably because they do not compensate by eating less. Popin says that drinking calories in liquid form does not register with our appetite controls.
Undoubtedly, the obesity epidemic in western society has never been so prevalent as the rate continually is climbing. There is an ample body of research that suggests that more frequent consumption of unhealthy fast
Other factors that influence self-control are proximal factors. Moreover, there are internal and external momentary influences that impact self-control and then as a result it influences eating behaviour. Moreover, there are internal momentary influences which include emotions. Our emotions change daily and often numerous times throughout the day. Too, positive affect versus negative affect is a major influencer of how much an individual eats and what they choose to eat. In addition, negative emotions have the ability to cause one to binge eat to suppress their emotions using what we would call “comfort food” (Crockett, Myrne, & Rokke, 2015). Interestingly, alexithymia is linked to disordered and emotional eating. Alexithymia is “the inability to recognize and identify emotional states” and is an interesting concept to look at when studying emotional states with regard to eating behaviour. (Crockett et al., 2015)