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09/22/2023
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By Zoey Sky
How to deal with bad eating habits: Understanding sugar addiction
Ending dinner with a piece of chocolate is a nice treat, but you may need to rethink your eating habits if you often finish off a whole chocolate by yourself. Sugar cravings can affect your overall health and may cause different complications like obesity and diabetes. Experts are still only beginning to understand the nature […]
05/08/2023
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By Olivia Cook
Study: Adolescent cannabis use in US increased by 245% over 20 years
Research led by the Oregon Health & Science University revealed adolescent cannabis use in the United States has increased drastically by about 245 percent since 2000. The findings, published in the journal Clinical Toxicology, found more than 338,000 instances of intentional abuse or misuse among American children aged 6 to 18. With a peak in […]
09/06/2021
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By Ethan Huff
SOCIAL MEDIA OVERLOAD: Young girls being rushed to emergency rooms with social media-induced motor skill disorders
Young girls everywhere are addicted to social media platforms like TikTok, and many of them are having to be rushed to the hospital for emergency care due to all that tiny screen addiction damaging their brains. According to reports, rampant social media use among children is creating an entire generation of brain-dead, disabled people who […]
08/18/2020
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By S.D. Wells
End nicotine, sugar, or caffeine cravings using these five BRAIN FOOD supplements
Most consumers who indulge themselves with mood-enhancing “treats” like sugar, nicotine, alcohol, or high doses of caffeine, are also paying a price on the back end when the dopamine “crutch” wears off, and they experience what has come to be known as the “chemical hangover.” With the chemical hangover, the only mainstream “relief” for it […]
02/25/2020
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By Michael Alexander
The human brain is constantly starving for information: What happens when the brain gorges on useless data?
Just like how it gets easily addicted to junk food and its empty nutrients, the human brain can also get addicted to empty information, say researchers from the University of California (UC), Berkeley. The study, published in the journal PNAS, revealed how the brain becomes addicted to empty information — a phenomenon people could be creating themselves […]
10/24/2019
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By Edsel Cook
Men and women are different, even when drunk: Research says men’s brains are more affected than women
Drinking excessive amounts of alcohol is not conducive to health, but it affects men differently than women. A recent study showed that the brain regions associated with emotions, memory, and social behavior displayed diminished activity in alcoholic men than in their female counterparts. Researchers reported that alcoholism impaired the function of the amygdala, hippocampus, and other limbic […]
02/07/2019
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By Jhoanna Robinson
From acute to chronic? Acute psychosis from marijuana use associated with future mental illness
A study that appeared in the American Journal of Psychiatry and which was authored by Marie Stephanie Kejser Starzer, Carsten Hjorthoj, Merete Nordentoft showed that people who experience acute psychotic symptoms due to excessive marijuana use have a tendency to develop a chronic psychotic illness later in life. The researchers analyzed the long-term dispositions of […]
05/15/2018
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By Ralph Flores
Why does drinking alcohol or sugary drinks make us thirsty?
Not all drinks were made to quench a person’s thirst: Far from it, alcoholic beverages and those that contain sugar make us even thirstier, and scientists may have found the reason why. In a study published in Cell Metabolism, research indicated the liver hormone FGF21, or fibroblast growth factor 21, to be responsible for the brain’s actions to increase […]
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