Obesity is a major health risk, with junk food consumption playing a central role in weight
gain, because of its high palatability and high-energy nutrients. The Cafeteria (CAF) diet …

Background Bariatric or weight loss surgery is currently the most effective treatment for
obesity and metabolic disease. Unlike dieting and pharmacology, its beneficial effects are …

The gut microbiota has the capacity to affect host appetite via intestinal satiety pathways, as
well as complex feeding behaviors. In this Review, we highlight recent evidence that the gut …

Objective Changes in reward processing are hypothesized to play a role in the onset and
maintenance of binge eating (BE). However, despite an increasing number of studies …

In the context of current-day online shopping, people select foods based on pictures and
using their visual systems. Although there are some reviews of previous neuroimaging …

Emergent evidence demonstrates that excessive consumption of high fat and high sugar
(HFHS) diets has negative consequences on hippocampal and prefrontal cortex (PFC) …

Background Phloretin is isolated from apple trees and could increase lipolysis in 3T3-L1
adipocytes. Previous studies have found that phloretin could prevent obesity in mice. In this …

Olfactory and gustatory dysfunction are recognized as common symptoms in patients with
COVID-19, with a prevalence ranging, respectively, between 41–61% and 38.2–49%. This …

Fructose consumption has been linked with metabolic syndrome and obesity. Fructose-
based sweeteners like high fructose corn syrup taste sweeter, improve food palatability, and …

Binge-eating disorder (BED) is a highly prevalent disorder. Subthreshold BED conditions
(sBED) are even more frequent in youth, but their significance regarding BED etiology and …