Sentences with phrase «called brain food»

For years I have compiled what I called Brain Food for the Good Life, and you can find them here in my blog, especially in the section on Personal Growth.

Infact, it is also sometimes called the brain food and it can help boost mood and reduce anxiety and depression better than some antidepressants.

No wonder it's called brain food.

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For instance, food inventors have engineered what is called a «bliss point» — the perfect amount of sweetness such that it maximizes the pleasure centers in our brains.

On her website, Oprah Winfrey promotes yogurt as a favorite breakfast food that «energizes and revives,» calling it one of her favorite «brain foods.»

The conspiracy theorist living inside my brain says we can expect to see more of this type of «journalism», followed by calls on the school officials to DO SOMETHING because IT IS FOR THE CHILDREN»S SAFETY and IF WE LET THE PARENTS SEND LUNCHES TO SCHOOL THEN CHILDREN WILL DIE!!!!!!!! (note the many, many exclamation points — that means this is a REALLY IMPORTANT POINT Y ’ ALL), followed by local school officials implementing policies to BAN CHILDREN FROM EATING FOOD BROUGHT IN FROM «OUTSIDE» and mandate that they eat, instead, the lunch provided by the school.

When they consume BMAA - tainted food or drink — be it bat stew, shellfish, or contaminated water — the molecule is not discarded; instead, it is taken up and deposited in the brain, forming what Cox calls a «toxic reservoir.»

Obese adolescent girls, Stice found, showed greater activation compared with their lean peers in regions of the brain that encode the sensory experience of eating food — the so - called gustatory cortex and the somatosensory regions, archipelagoes of neurons that reach across different structures in the brain.

Consuming these types of fatty food affects a part of the brain called the hypothalamus, which helps regulate hunger.

Auriel Willette, a researcher in food science and human nutrition at Iowa State University, found evidence that an elevated presence of a protein called neuronal pentraxin - 2 may slow cognitive decline and reduce brain atrophy in people with Alzheimer's disease.

Auriel Willette, a researcher in food science and human nutrition, found evidence that an elevated presence of a protein called neuronal pentraxin - 2 may slow cognitive decline and reduce brain atrophy in people with Alzheimer's disease.

Cannabis activates a brain protein called the cannabinoid receptor 1, so researchers reasoned that inhibiting that receptor would decrease desire for food.

When participants were shown pictures of highly desirable foods, fMRI imaging revealed increased activity in a part of the brain called the right insula after participants had consumed the five - day walnut - rich diet compared to when they had not.

«The Y6 gene is highly expressed in a part of the brain called the «hypothalamic suprachiasmatic nucleus», which is known to control the body's circadian rhythm and may also critically modulate metabolic processes in response to food.

Therefore, scientists have been searching for what they call a food - entrainable oscillator, a region of the brain that sets daily rhythms in response to food.

At Day's Close: Night in Times Past A. Roger Ekirch; W. W. Norton, $ 25.95 The impetus for sleep, according to the medical opinion of the Middle Ages, arose from a process called concoction: Fumes from digested food arose from the stomach and traveled to the brain, where they congealed, and so «doe stop the conduites and waies of the senses.»

Using a new high - speed imaging technique called SCAPE to track activity in the entire fly brain, we will identify activity patterns that generate appetite and trigger food seeking behavior.

Brain cells called astrocytes may play an important role in controlling that yearning for food

Beyond the sugar load, kombucha can be problematic for people with histamine intolerance, a condition Will Cole, D.C., refers to as «basically an allergic reaction without the allergen, sometimes called a «pseudoallergy» that happens when a person's body can't properly respond to high - histamine foods, causing allergy - like symptoms of rashes, stomachaches, brain fog, and anxiety.

When your stomach is empty, a hormone called ghrelin is released, which signalizes your brain to increase the feeling of hunger with the production of gastric acid and prepare your stomach for food consumption.

Cells called tanycytes, which are located in the area of the brain that controls energy levels, detect nutrients in food we have eaten and pass the information directly on to the brain.

This area of the brain, called the hypothalamus, contains specialized cellular sensors that can detect the level of energy available from food and, depending on that level, initiate processes which either create or conserve energy in the body.

His new book (about to be released at the time of this podcast) is called Wired to Eat, and it's all about how to literally rewire your brain in a positive way and turn off cravings when it comes to food.

The nice feeling we get from eating a sugary foods is a result of a chemical called dopamine, which is released in the brain when sugar is consumed and is linked to the feeling of reward.

The Healthy Brain Diet especially recommends purple foods like blueberries, acai, plums, grapes and eggplant because they are high in antioxidants call anthocyanins.

After all, all those foods we call comfort foods truly send our brain the signal of pleasure and comfort and really comfort our brains at the time of stress.

Also beware of so - called «scientists» trying to decouple coupled systems, or as you put it, «simultaneously developed a way to make foods that stimulate the pleasure centers in our brains without providing any nutrition.»

There is a documentary on BBC or Discovery science called something like «Did Cooking Make Us Human» where they show an experiment that show that cooked food gives 30 % -40 % energy so stomach needs less energy to break the food and so the brain has more energy to function..

A condition called ketosis takes place where your body breaks down fats into ketones which are used as an alternative food for your brain, organs, and muscles.

Fish, often called «brain food,» contain important amounts of the omega - 3 fatty acids EPA and DHA, which are important for proper fetal development, including neuronal, retinal and immune function.

Walnuts and apple slices - walnuts are sometimes called the ultimate «brain food.»

When Dr. Weston A. Price studied so - called primitive peoples, he found that they consumed large amounts of fat - soluble vitamins A and D (as well as vitamin K2, which he called the X Factor) from foods such as pastured butter, egg yolks, organ meats, shellfish, fatty fish and animal fats — as well as from foods that modern people don't normally eat, such as intestines, brain, lungs, thymus, fish liver, fish heads, fish eggs and fat from various game animals.

When you don't eat enough carbs, your body's «favorite» source of energy which is turned into glucose, your body is put into a metabolic state called ketosis which turns fats into ketones and they serve as an alternative food for your brain, muscles, and other organs.

I like to call this type of foods intelligent food because they have the necessary nutrients to boost Stem cell, DNA and brain health.

It is also made with whole wheat bread which Dr. Sears calls «brain food.»

The following week, a letter to the editor from Forgotten Felines volunteer Valerie Eikenberg called the camera trap project «a lame - brain experiment,» criticizing Refuge personnel for baiting the cameras with cat food.