Articles that suggest new ways to control weight are always interesting to me, and hopefully also to the readers of my blog. But this one is a doozy. Clinton Rubin found that placing mice on a vibrating platform for 15 minutes per day, 5 days per week, for 15 weeks produced Read more…
Every once in awhile, a study comes along that makes me rethink a lot of things I simply took for granted. That makes science so much fun! I have to confess that I have been very convinced by an extensive literature that experience, as opposed to brain differences, has little Read more…
Okay, now I’m moving from my foodie thread to a mommy thread, but I couldn’t pass up commenting on recent research by Ruth Feldman of Bar Ilan University in Israel [1]. Feldman measured oxytocin levels in pregnant women during their first and third trimesters, and then again in their first Read more…
As the mother of three daughters, now all grown up, I always find conversations about the gender of one’s offspring interesting. Parents often argue about which is easier to raise–boys or girls. I’m not in any position to argue that one–plus, my girls have always been a pleasure to parent. Mr. F and Read more…
At the risk of turning this into a food blog (it’s my third foodie post in a row), I can’t resist talking about a recent study from Mr. F’s previous employer, Nestle. According to Nestle researcher Sunil Kochhar, people who crave a daily chocolate fix have a different set of Read more…