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Eating processed comfort foods can briefly make you feel better about yourself. The sugar fat and salt they contain can affect the brain's mesolymbic reward system, giving you a nice sensation. But the mood improvement is only brief because your body will quickly release insulin, which takes sugar out of your bloodstream, and causes a slump. If you try to stop the slump … [Read more...] about Why comfort eating doesn’t make you happy

Down to London to the ISNPR 2019 conference on Nutrition for Mental and Brain Health, organised by the International Society for Nutritional Psychiatry Research. I presented my paper as part of the Symposium on Dietary Influences on Neurocognition Across the Lifespan, organized by Andrew Scholey, with participants Lauren Owen, Alison Coates, Eef Hogervorst, and David Smith. … [Read more...] about Dietary Influences on Neurocognition (ISNPR 2019)

I was interviewed by Mathew LaPlante for the UnDisciplined Show on Utah Public Radio, about our recent meta-analysis. Each week, UnDisciplined introduces its audience to two scientists, working in different fields – and then introduces them to each other, to discuss points of overlap – making for a lively and unpredictable discussion! I was paired up with Jay Jennings, a … [Read more...] about UnDisciplined: my Interview alongside a Political Scientist

Following our meta analysis paper "Sugar rush or sugar crash? on the effects of carbohydrate on mood, led by Dr Konstantinos Mantantzis at Humboldt University of Berlin, with Dr Friederike Schlaghecken and Professor Elizabeth Maylor, I was interviewed for Poland's Polska Swiat TV News 24 about the effects of sugar on health and the human body. Watch the interview  (3 … [Read more...] about Effects of sugar on health: Interview on Poland’s TVN24