Habits, both good ones and bad ones, are pervasive in animal behavior. Important frameworks have been developed to understand habits through psychological and neurobiological studies. This work has given us a rich understanding of brain networks that promote habits, and has also helped us to understand what constitutes a habitual behavior as opposed to a behavior that is more flexible and prosp...

The role of statins in primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) is well established. As the use of statins gains popularity and becomes more common in the general population, questions regarding the role of a healthy diet in the prevention of CVD have been raised. In a recent study, Ferenczi et al1 wrote that increased CVD risk factors associated with a typical fast food...

BACKGROUND Habit-interventions are designed to promote the automaticity of healthy behaviours and may also enhance self-regulatory skills during the habit-formation process. A recent trial of habit-based advice for weight loss (10 Top Tips; 10TT), found that patients allocated to 10TT lost significantly more weight over 3 months than those allocated to usual care, and reported greater increases...

background: poisoning, a common worldwide problem, seeks its own treatments to improve, especially by the forthcoming evidence based medicine (ebm). charcoal/sorbitol slurry (css) administration is one of these methods with great debates around it which needs to be investigated more. methods: in this clinical trial, 105 cases of benzodiazepine toxicity with at least 3 symptoms and no contraindi...

The present review provides an investigation into the food choice decisions made by individuals in relation to fruit and vegetable consumption. A comprehensive body of evidence now exists concerning the protective effect of fruit and vegetables against a number of diseases, particularly cardiovascular disease and certain forms of cancer. Current UK recommendations are to increase intakes of fru...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Fast-food consumption has greatly increased in Taiwan. Frequent fast food intake is associated with both allergy and obesity. The aim of this study was to describe fast food habit changes, and to assess the relationship between fast food intake and the risk of functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGIDs) among Taiwanese adolescents. METHODS AND STUDY DESIGN This ana...

BACKGROUND The food addiction model proposes that obesity overlaps with addiction in terms of neurobiological alterations in the striatum and related clinical manifestations (i.e., craving and persistence of unhealthy habits). Therefore, we aimed to examine the functional connectivity of the striatum in excess-weight versus normal-weight subjects and to determine the extent of the association b...