Appetite

Do you like your coffee black? You may be a psychopath, says new study

A fondness for bitter-tasting food and drinks, such as black coffee, may be a sign of dark personality traits, including Machiavellianism, sadism and narcissism, according to a new study.

Believe it or not: Looking at ice-cream can make you fat!

Scientists at the University of Southern California in the US found that just looking at images of high calorie food stimulates the brain's appetite control centre and results in an increased desire for food.

Drug addiction driven by brain cells that control hunger: study

The researchers from Yale university found a set of nerve cells in the brain that is not only linked with hunger and overeating, but also drives drug addiction.

Blame those extra kilos on the 'Greedy gene'!

A team at Georgetown University Medical Centre has shown in tests on mice that a mutation on Bdnf gene broke down communication in the body and led to non-stop eating and rapid weight gain.