Here we go with mice again. I am a cautionary skeptic when I read about scientific experiments that deal with social hypotheses. As someone who has worked in risk analysis, I squint at imaginative ...

What if tweaking your diet could add years—or even decades—to your life? According to research published in Cell Metabolism, adjusting one specific nutrient intake could be a key to longer, healthier ...

Maternal obesity impacts the eating behaviors of offspring via long-term overexpression of the microRNA miR-505-5p, according to a new study. Maternal obesity impacts the eating behaviors of offspring ...

Even in the absence of hunger, mice increased their sucrose diet intake after observing their peers eat. This effect was abolished by the inhibition of dopamine receptors. Previous studies in humans ...

Meat-eating may not have made us human after all, say paleoanthropologists. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The human brain is an ...