Learn about why sugar is so addictive, to how to regain control over our eating!
Contains the following Continuing Education modules:
- Fructose and Fat Storage
- Influences on Food Choices
- Low-Carb Dieting and Appetite
- Sugar Cravings
- Visual Cues and Taste
Fructose and Fat Storage
If being efficient at converting fructose into body fat is so disadvantageous to our health, then why are we so good at it? Might our frugivorous evolutionary past hold the answers? In this report, we dive into evolutionary genetics to shed light on the possible links between your genes, fructose, and obesity!
In this module you will learn…
- Whether fructose is making you fat
- What fructose is and why we’re eating so much of it
- How our body deals with sugar
- The impact fructose can have on our weight
- Whether all sugars are the same
Influences on Food Choices
Who (or what) controls when, what, and how much you eat? Your brain is influenced by a multitude of things when making food choices. We’ll navigate through these influences, be they physiological or environmental, conscious or unconscious, hormonal or neural, visual or olfactory.
In this module you will learn…
- The top influences on how our brain makes decisions about food
- Whether we have as much conscious control over our eating as we think
- The role of food “cues” in overeating
- Whether we can really blame stress for making us eat things we shouldn’t
- How food marketing uses sneaky tricks to make us eat more
Low-Carb Dieting and Appetite
Finding ways to reduce hunger is the “holy grail” of weight loss. Low-carb dieters claim to have found out how to diet without inducing hunger, but is this just hearsay, or is there science to back it up?
In this module you will learn…
- Whether low-carb dieting suppresses appetite
- The fundamentals of a low-carb ketogenic diet
- Which key hormones are involved in ketosis and appetite regulation
- Whether the side-effects of ketogenic dieting outweigh any benefits
Sugar Cravings
Why is sugar so addictive? To answer this, we’re going to dive into the science of how your brain responds to sugar.
- Why sugar is so hard to resist
- What neuroscience can tell us about sugar cravings
- Whether we’ve evolved to crave sugary foods
- How brain reward centres are involved in our sweet addiction
Visual Cues and Taste
Did you know that sweet food can taste salty when served in a blue bowl? How is that possible? Discover the surprising influence dish colour might have on your sense of taste.
In this module you will learn…
- Whether plate colour can affect taste perception
- Why we might associate colour with flavour
- The role of vision in our sense of taste
- Whether our perception of taste could be a consequence of evolution
- The ways in which we can manipulate taste perception to enjoy healthier foods
