Hungry, Hungry Hippocampus: The Psychology Of How We Eat

Hungry, Hungry Hippocampus: The Psychology Of How We Eat

NPR - Shankar Vedantam

Anyone who's tried (and failed) to follow a diet knows that food is more than fuel. The reasons we eat are even embedded in our language. When we're in an unfamiliar place, we yearn for comfort food. We take one too many scoops of ice cream because we stress eat. We connect to others by breaking …

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