How the Brain Picks the Menus

How the Brain Picks the Menus

Richard J. Wurt-man, in Technology Review (July 1984),
P.O. Box 978, Farmingdale, N.Y. 11737.
The human body's production of the chemical messengers that govern its internal affairs is largely unaffected what nutrients are avail- able. However, recent evidence suggests that some foods do trigger the release of such messages, according to Wurtman, a medical re-searcher at MIT.
Along with other researchers, he has conducted experiments with serotonin, a "neurotransmitter" that carries...

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