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Does a junk food diet make you lazy? UCLA psychology study offers answer

By Guest PostMay 5, 2014Healthaaron blaisdell, animal cognition, bernd blasius, cognition, hanno seebens, human evolution, jung youn lee, obesity, plant communications, ucla psychology, weier cui, zahoor salmi

Being overweight makes people tired and sedentary — not the other way around

A new UCLA psychology study provides evidence that being overweight makes people tired and sedentary — not the other way around.

Life scientists led by UCLA’s Aaron Blaisdell placed 32 female rats on one of two diets for six months. The first, a standard rat’s diet, consisted of relatively unprocessed foods like ground corn and fish meal. The ingredients in the second were highly processed, of lower quality and included substantially more sugar — a proxy for a junk food diet. (more…)

Are you really going to eat that?

By Guest PostFebruary 12, 2014Culture, General, Healthbenjamin karney, emotional support, healthy living, love me slender, low risk lifestyle, marriages, married couples, mood, relationship, thomas bradbury, ucla psychology, us adults, video recordings

New book by UCLA psychologists shows couples how to team up to lose weight, get healthier

After analyzing thousands of hours of video recordings of married couples talking with each other about their health, two UCLA psychology professors were shocked by what they saw. (more…)