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Comfort Foods
Comfort foods are familiar and emotionally satisfying dishes that provide a sense of psychological comfort in times of stress or distress. They are not…
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Colony-Forming Unit (CFU)
In microbiology, a Colony-Forming Unit (CFU) determines the concentration of bacteria, fungi, and other microbes in a sample.
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Cognitive resilience is the brain’s ability to adapt and recover from cognitive challenges, stress, or aging while maintaining normal cognitive function. It reflects the…
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When we refer to “cognition” within Nutritional Psychology, we define the mental processes associated with attention, perception, thinking, learning, memory, and other higher-order processes.
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Cytokines are small signaling molecules of soluble glycoproteins released by immune cells and various other cells. They regulate immune response, support cell-to-cell communication and…
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A cue is a trigger or signal that initiates a habit. It’s a prompt that tells your brain to go into automatic mode and…
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