A bite of salty fries or a spoonful of creamy chocolate may give you a rush of pleasure. But when these treats are always ...

Study found that reduced neurotensin in obese mice prevented dopamine from triggering the usual pleasure response to ...

Chronic high-fat diets blunt the brain’s pleasure response to rich foods by impairing NAcLat→VTA signaling in mice.

While raising mice on a high-fat diet, Gazit Shimoni noticed a striking paradox: While in their home cages, these mice strongly preferred high-fat chow, which contained 60% fat, over normal chow ...

Research from Weill Cornell Medicine has identified a molecular pathway linking omega-6 linoleic acid—a common dietary fat in ...

According to new findings from University of Michigan scientists, eating too much fat could seriously hobble your immune ...

Rutgers researchers found that increased brown fat improves longevity and exercise capacity in mice. They aim to develop a ...

Researchers found that chronic high-fat diets reduce neurotensin, a brain peptide that enhances dopamine-driven food pleasure ...

We discovered that mice fed a regular diet experience the same emotion, but mice on a high-fat diet do not. Instead of eating because they truly like it, they can continue to do so out of habit or ...

University of Rennes researchers have discovered that transplanting gut microbiota from elite athletes into mice improves ...

Scientists have long been exploring ways to kill cancer cells by starving them of the nutrients they need to survive. A new ...