The pleasure we get from eating junk food—the dopamine rush from crunching down on salty, greasy French fries and a luscious ...

A new study reveals that long-term high-fat diets reduce pleasure from eating by lowering neurotensin, a brain peptide that boosts dopamine response.

India's obesity crisis is intensifying, with big pharma companies like Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk competing to introduce ...

Paradoxically, anecdotal evidence suggests that people with obesity may take less pleasure in eating than those of normal weight. Brain scans of obese individuals show reduced activity in pleasure ...

Kansas House Rep. Tim Johnson advocates for Medicare coverage of FDA-approved anti-obesity medications. Johnson argues that ...

Solving a long-standing puzzle in obesity research For decades, doctors and researchers have struggled to understand and treat obesity, as countless fad diets and eating regimens have failed to ...

America is struggling with an obesity problem, as nearly 42% of U.S. adults are obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Whether this is due to lack of healthy food ...

Obesity and stress could magnify the risk of one of the most aggressive types of cancer, a new study suggests. Researchers at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) found that stress-related ...

Solving a long-standing puzzle in obesity research For decades, doctors and researchers have struggled to understand and treat obesity, as countless fad diets and eating regimens have failed to ...