Eating ultra-processed foods may rewire your brain’s hunger and reward circuits

Eating ultra-processed foods may rewire your brain’s hunger and reward circuits

Source: News-Medical

High intake of ultra-processed foods is linked to adverse metabolic health and microstructural brain changes in regions that control appetite and reward. These effects occur both through obesity-related pathways and independently via inflammation and dyslipidemia.

A new brain imaging study reveals how ultra-processed foods reshape appetite circuits, raising concerns that these everyday products could be rewiring our eating habits from the inside out.
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