Intermittent fasting (IF) is a dietary strategy that involves alternating periods of abstention from calorie consumption with periods of ad libitum food intake and has been shown to have beneficial effects in many ways. Recent studies have shown that IF attenuates neurodegeneration and improves...

Background and Aim: Chronic unpredictable mild stress (CUMS) is a protocol widely used to create an animal model of depression with food deprivation, water deprivation, and physical-dominant stressors as routine procedures. However, human depression mainly involves psychological stressors and does...

Food hardness is one of the dietary features that may impact brain functions. We performed a systematic review to evaluate the effect of food hardness (hard food versus soft food diet) on behavior, cognition, and brain activation in animals and humans (PROSPERO ID: CRD42021254204). The search was...

Objectives: The aims of this study were to evaluate gastrointestinal (GI) retention of an ingested meal by fluorescence imaging and compare how retention is affected by differences in the physical characteristics of meals. Methods: Mice were given an oral fluorescent indocyanine green (ICG) probe...

Purpose of the Review: The endocannabinoid system (ENS) has emerged as an important factor in food intake and may have implications for nutrition research. The objective of the current report is to summarise the available evidence on the ENS and eating behaviour from both animal and human studies....

Diet affects multiple facets of human health and is inextricably linked to chronic metabolic conditions such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. Dietary nutrients are essential not only for human health but also for the health and survival of the trillions of microbes that...

In living organisms, the central control of nutrition is a highly complex and vital mechanism. Central control of nutrition occurs in various regions of the brain, with the hypothalamus being the most important of which is the hypothalamus. Th e hypothalamus controls feeding behaviors through...

Acute toxicity and subacute toxicity of fish oil and curcuma extractum was evaluated by animal test to ensure the edible safety. The acute oral toxicity test of mice and rats and 30-day feeding test on rats were performed. The results showed that, the MTD for mice and rats was more than 15 000...

Aim: Contradiction overwhelms chemerin link to feeding behavior. Neither the chemerin central role on appetite regulation nor its relation to hypothalamic histamine and AMPK is verified. Main methods: Food intake, body weight and hypothalamic biochemical changes were assessed after a single...

Objective: To evaluate sub-acute oral toxicity of L-arabinose in rats. Methods: According to GB 15193.22-2014 National food safety standard-Repeated dose 28-day oral toxicity study, specific pathogen free (SPF) grade healthy Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats were selected and divided randomly based on their ...