The Brain and Food. Secrets of Your Mind
Description
The brain may be the control center of the human nervous system as well as the chief focus of neurological research, but its link with another organ-the stomach-is a topic of increasing interest and study. This ABC News program looks at the brain's complex relationship with food and its role in America's obesity epidemic. With help from sophisticated imaging techniques, viewers go inside an obese person's brain to see how it responds to fattening foods. Case studies include an overweight woman who has tried everything from diets to bariatric surgery to manage her constant eating compulsion and is now turning to brain surgery-the most radical weight loss procedure ever attempted. Another story features a woman with a disturbing form of somnambulism: she eats in her sleep. Does brain research offer her any hope?
Runtime
38 min
Series
Subjects
- Nutritionally induced diseases (32)
- Weight loss (94)
- Brain (487)
- Nutrition (648)
- Lifestyles (99)
- Obesity (111)
- Nervous system (179)
- Diet (387)
- Neurophysiology (78)
- Food habits (189)
Genre
Date of Publication
[2012], c2010
Database
Films on Demand
Direct Link
Similar Films
Trust me I'm a doctor. Series 9, Episode 2
Eat better, do better. Young people. 2
Understanding Breastfeeding, How to Breastfeed (Entendiendo la lactancia materna, Cómo amamantar)
Understanding Breastfeeding, Nipple Care
Born to Be Fat
Destination flavour. Episode 2
Understanding Breastfeeding, Nipple Care (Entendiendo la lactancia materna, El cuidado de los pezones)
Future food. Fat or skinny?
Surgical weight loss
Food Allergies
Teaching the KS2 news report lesson
Sugar Overload. Corporate Profits vs. Public Health
Food Fight. Childhood obesity and the food industry
Dynamic warm-up and post-workout recovery methods
Let's do lunch