Thursday, November 10, 2005

A Recipe for Overeating: Studies Outline Dangers of Mixing Stress, Deprivation and Tempting Foods

"Two studies in the October issue of Behavioral Neuroscience show that when animals are stressed, deprived and exposed to tempting food, they overeat, with different degrees of interaction. The powerful interplay between internal and external factors helps explain why dieters rebound and even one cookie can trigger a binge if someone’s predisposed to binge." Source: Behavioral Neuroscience (via the American Psychological Association)

Study 1 : Various Aspects of Feeding Behavior Can Be Partially Dissociated in the Rat by the Incentive Properties of Food and the Physiological State [download PDF]

Study 2 : Combined Dieting and Stress Evoke Exaggerated Responses to Opioids in Binge-Eating Rats [download PDF]

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