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

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

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

While raising mice on a high-fat diet, Gazit Shimoni noticed a striking paradox: While in their home cages, these mice ...

“Mice are a good model for human obesity . . . but it seems to me that, for diet, the mouse literature has gone off track,” said Craig Warden, who studies the genetics of body fat accumulation at the ...

In a nutshell High-fat diets significantly impair neutrophils—your immune system’s first responders—making them less effective at capturing and killing bacteria These effects begin after just one week ...

Compared to control animals eating chow and young rats on the high-fat diet, aged rats showed behaviors indicating both types of memory were impaired after only three days of fatty food—and the ...

Compared to control animals eating chow and young rats on the high-fat diet, aged rats showed behaviors indicating both types of memory were impaired after only three days of fatty food -- and the ...