Hedonic Hunger

Why do we eat the wrong stuff? Did you ever succumb to the lure of chocolate when you weren’t the least bit hungry? What about chips, cookies, donuts, ice cream? We’ve all been there at some point in our lives, experiencing what experts are now calling “hedonic hunger”, which is different from the hunger we […]

The Disease-Fighting Power of Blueberries, Grapes and Apples

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A big, study from the Harvard School of Public Health shows that eating fruit – particularly blueberries, grapes and apples – can lower the risk of Type 2 diabetes. But the researchers learned that fruit juice has the opposite effect: their study shows that drinking a daily glass of fruit juice actually increases the risk […]