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A team of faculty, students, and staff from the CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute published a review of the impact of ...

How junk food outsmarts our brains—by hiding in our memories. New research reveals that memories of fatty and sugary foods are encoded in the hippocampus, helping explain why some cravings feel ...