Food for thought

This week, I've run across these two articles...

• Food and Drug Reward: Overlapping Circuits in Human Obesity and Addiction 
• The Most Important Thing You Can Do For Your Health (Not What You Think)

  Now, I have to be honest.  I read the last blog post & skimmed the first article.  I need to do further reading into the Rat Park study & read the paper listed in the first one.  On the surface, though, assuming both authors are correct with their summaries...  it's really making me think about the mismatch in nature of humans vs. our constructed environments which we believe to be "ideal".

Just food for thought.

Friday Article Wrap-up

Alrighty!


So I read a lot of articles and come across stuff that I find fascinating all the time. Lately, it's been within a very narrow genre and since I've been sharing those articles regularly, some people are getting irritated or taking it the wrong way. As a result, I've figured out a way to present the articles that I've found intriguing this week without constantly spamming people. Also, if you aren't interested, don't read them or pick and choose.



Without further ado, here's this week's list in no particular order:

Fun stuff:

• The 25 Best Costumes At The 2009 NYC Marathon



• SEASONAL: Zombie Attack Preparedness (ZAP) Workout

Informative stuff:

• Omega-3 deficiency may be hurting our hearts


• Feeling grumpy 'is good for you' - finally, after untold stories about how J's gonna live 12-14 years longer than me because he doesn't stress.... ; )


• Collins: Letter to young American women


• Animals make the perfect humans - an OpEd that scathing, yet amusing


• Depression link to processed food - I'd like to see the controls on the study, but I've heard enough anecdotal evidence to buy that it's a contributing factor


• Chris Rock on the billion dollar black 'good hair' industry

• 'The myth of the chemical cure' - also something I've heard a couple of different places and worth noting perhaps


• To Meet Your Nutrient Goals, You May Need to Expand Your Food Variety - I want to look up this study too.
• Not So Happily Ever After