HEALTH: Stress and comfort foods

From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Thu Sep 11 2003 - 07:20:04 MDT

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    Some of you may be familiar with Robert Sapolsky's (Stanford
    Prof.) work with stress, glucocorticoid hormones and aging.

    This semes to have recently been significantly extended
    by Pecoraro and Dallman (et al) at UCSF.

    See:
    Comfort-food Cravings May Be Body's Attempt To Put Brake
     On Chronic Stress

    http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/09/030911072109.htm

    Nothing worth knowing is ever simple... :-(

    R.



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