Thursday, April 08, 2010

Mood-Food Relationships - effects, nutrition, body, diet, absorption, carbohydrate, protein, fat, eating, carbohydrates, amino, habits, Effects of Neurotransmitters, Size of Meal

Mood-Food Relationships - effects, nutrition, body, diet, absorption, carbohydrate, protein, fat, eating, carbohydrates, amino, habits, Effects of Neurotransmitters, Size of Meal: "Research on the connection between a person's mood and the food he or she eats has reveled what many people have long believed, that eating a certain food can influence a person's mood—at least temporarily. Research by Judith Wurtman, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has focused on how certain foods alter one's mood by influencing the level of certain brain chemicals called neurotransmitters . While many other factors influence the level of these chemicals, such as hormones , heredity, drugs , and alcohol, three neurotransmitters—dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin —have been studied in relation to food, and this research has shown that neurotransmitters are produced in the brain from components of certain foods."