A note from...
Jennifer Weeks
Environment + Energy Editor
At one time or another, most of us have sat down with a bag of cookies or a platter of nachos, intending just to have a few, and then realized we’ve eaten the whole thing. Why doesn’t this ever happen with, say, salad?
Addiction researchers Tera Fazzino and Kaitlyn Rohde point to foods that are hyperpalatable, meaning they contain certain sets of ingredients that overwhelm our natural ability to say “enough.” They’ve identified key combinations of fat, sodium, carbohydrates and simple sugars that characterize hyperpalatable foods – and shown that these items comprise over 60% of the typical American diet.
Tera Fazzino, University of Kansas; Kaitlyn Rohde, University of Kansas
Everyone knows it's hard to stop eating potato chips or chocolate chip cookies. New research shows why: Certain combinations of fat, sodium, sugar or carbohydrates make them irresistible.
Satchin Panda, University of California San Diego; Pam Taub, University of California San Diego
What if you could treat obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure just by limiting when you eat and drink all your calories? New research says it might work.
Yurou Wang, University of Alabama; Trina E. Emler, University of Kansas
While large-scale education assessments, such as the PISA, are meant to show how education systems are faring around the world, evidence shows these assessments come with a host of problems.
Erik C. Nisbet, The Ohio State University; Olga Kamenchuk, The Ohio State University
Ukrainians may grudgingly accept compromise plan to resolve separatist conflict, but in so doing they could hand Russia a wedge to drive between them and the West
Holiday movies offer us a glimpse into how the world is could be, often in sharp contrast to our lives as they are. In that way, the annual act of viewing them is like a religious ritual.
Globally, emissions from air travel account for only about 3% of the warming human activities are causing, but aviation affects our climate in a number of ways.
