You may not believe this, but until I was eighteen years old, I had never tasted a strawberry! In fact, until I was twenty-four, I hadn’t eaten a lot of things that the average person eats. Today, I’ll eat practically anything. I like most things, and I’m not afraid to try a thing! This [...]

In 2004 a study was done (1)  that showed that lack of sleep for a short period of time saw an 18 percent decrease in leptin, a hormone that helps regulate the brains signaling for need of food, and a 28 percent increase in ghrelin, a hormone that triggers hunger. What this means is that [...]