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- TITLE OF ARTICLE: Eater's High
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- AUTHOR: Raeburn, Paul
- JOURNAL NAME: American Health
- DATE: Dec., 1987
- PAGE(S) 41-42
- ACCESSION NUMBER: 08
- SENSE(S): Taste
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- ABSTRACT: This article is concerned about the
- pleasure-giving effects eating has in connection
- with certain chemicals produced in the human brain.
- Endorphins are mentioned throughout the article as
- well as other neurotransmitters. Hungers for
- specific types of food, such as carbohydrates,
- fats, proteins appear, according to research, to be
- triggered by specific brain chemicals. Brain
- chemicals can trigger hunger or a lack of appetite.
- The brain's neurotransmitters can become imbalanced
- when abnormal dieting patterns are practiced;
- erratic eating signals could result.
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- RESEARCHERS QUOTED IN ARTICLE:
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- Cain, William. A psychologist at Yale University
- who studies the sense of smell. Commented on the
- increase of taste pleasure when we are hungry or
- thirsty.
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- Civille, Gail Vance. President of Sensory Spectrum,
- East Hanover, N.J., and food industry consultant.
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- Drewnowski, Adam. Psychologist and biochemist at
- the University of Michigan. Commented on the
- connection between stress and endorphins.
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- Leibowitz, Sarah. Neurobiologist at the Rockefeller
- University, New York. Researcher in the area of the
- effect of food on brain chemicals.
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- Wurtman, Richard. Neurochemist at M.I.T Commented
- on the place of serotonin in appetite regulation.
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