Archive for October, 2008

This is your brain on snacks

Friday, October 24th, 2008

Scientific American has an article on “The Science of Snacks: Thinking Makes you Hungry.”  It makes me want to say ‘duh’, but I suppose given that when there is a passage of time and assuming that my brain is nearly always thinking, that there’s  either a correlation of thinking and being hungry or there’s not.

FTA:

A study in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine contends that intellectual work—that’s right, I’m calling writing this stuff, ya know, intellectual—induces a big increase in caloric intake.

Anti-aging super foods

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

Though the finding of a gray hair and fear of aging likely spawned the author to write it, this article has some good snack ideas and interesting mentions of health studies. I enjoyed it. Hopefully you will too.

7 anti-aging super foods.