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Imagining Eating Can Reduce How Much We Eat
It’s Halloween and your kid has returned from trick-or-treating with a haul of epic proportions. You have a sweet tooth that is hard to deny. How can you fend off your inner candy glutton? Although
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Fighting Germs With More Than White Blood Cells
The month of October brings many things: turning leaves, crisp autumn air, Halloween…and the beginning of the cold and flu season. While the human body has developed remarkable defenses against these insidious infections, it turns
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What Keeps Adults Well?
The puzzle of human well-being has occupied scientists for centuries. How do we define well-being? What factors contribute to it? How does it change over the lifespan? And, most importantly, what can we do to
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Eating To Fit Into Your Genes
When was the last time you thought about what you eat? Although we rarely stop to think about our food, our dietary choices significantly influence our health, which is a necessary component of proper function
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OppNet Request for Applications: Mechanistic pathways linking psychosocial stress and behavior (R01)
OppNet, NIH’s Basic Behavioral and Social Science Opportunity Network, just released a new RFA for three-year research projects: Mechanistic pathways linking psychosocial stress and behavior (R01) This OppNet Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages research grant
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People say they want to eat healthy, then order junk food
Two faces, double chin “Never mind that some restaurants have started listing calories on their menus,” says Associated Press. “Forget even that we keep saying we want to eat healthy. When Americans eat out, we