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  2. The psychology of comfort foods: Why we crave certain meals ...

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    Registered dietitian Kate Ingram explains, telling Yahoo Life: “Research is mixed, but it looks like comfort foods — particularly highly processed foods — may improve mood for an hour or two ...

  3. Human nutrition - Wikipedia

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    The diet in the tropics tended [when?] to depend more heavily on plant foods, while the diet at higher latitudes tended more towards animal products. Analyses of postcranial and cranial remains of humans and animals from the Neolithic, along with detailed bone-modification studies, have shown that cannibalism also occurred among prehistoric humans.

  4. Comfort food - Wikipedia

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    One study divided college-students' comfort-food identifications into four categories (nostalgic foods, indulgence foods, convenience foods, and physical comfort foods) with a special emphasis on the deliberate selection of particular foods to modify mood or affect, and indications that the medical-therapeutic use of particular foods may ...

  5. Food psychology - Wikipedia

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    Food psychology is the psychological study of how people choose the food they eat (food choice), along with food and eating behaviors. [1] Food psychology is an applied psychology , using existing psychological methods and findings to understand food choice and eating behaviors. [ 2 ]

  6. Certain Foods Can Dramatically Affect Your Mood - AOL

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    Short Term Happiness vs. Long-Term Health "Sweet, fatty foods can make us feel full, satisfied, and happy in the very short term, but over weeks, months, and years, can have an overall deleterious ...

  7. Nutrition and cognition - Wikipedia

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    Insufficient intake of selected vitamins, or certain metabolic disorders, may affect cognitive processes by disrupting the nutrient-dependent processes within the body that are associated with the management of energy in neurons, which can subsequently affect synaptic plasticity, or the ability to encode new memories.

  8. Affect (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    Affect, emotion, or feeling is displayed to others through facial expressions, hand gestures, posture, voice characteristics, and other physical manifestation. These affect displays vary between and within cultures and are displayed in various forms ranging from the most discrete of facial expressions to the most dramatic and prolific gestures ...

  9. Why One Dietitian is Speaking Up for “Ultra-Processed” Foods

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    There’s limited cause-and-effect research on how processed foods affect health, and scientists and policymakers have yet to come up with a good way to, as Hess says, “meaningfully delineate ...