Fatty Foods Addictive as Cocaine

Updated May 14, 2017

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Fatty Foods Addictive as Cocaine in Growing Body of Science - Businessweek:  'via Blog this'

“The data is so overwhelming the field has to accept it,” said Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. “We are finding tremendous overlap between drugs in the brain and food in the brain.”

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Free Podcasts - About Herbs and Dietary Supplements

Updated August 17, 2021

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Weight Loss Dietary Supplements and The Pursuit of Happiness (video) - YouTube. Lecture by Candy Tsourounis, Professor of Clinical Pharmacy UCSF

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Good stuff! A surprising find. Quite by accident, I found a collection of free podcasts produced by UCSF (University of California, San Francisco), my alma mater. This collection is a series of podcasts from a Candy Tsourounis taught pharmacy school course focused on An Evidence Based Review on Herbs and Dietary Supplements. This is a great example of technology making knowledge sharing so accessible to the general public. Follow the link above, and you'll discover 5 podcasts . . .

1. The Dietary Supplement Industry - An Overview
2. Herbs and Supplements in Mental Health
3. Supplements and the Immune System, Herbal Remedies for Immune Function
4. Weight Loss Supplements
5. Glucosamines, Omega 3 Fatty Acids

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