Overcoming Limitations of Dieting by Focusing on Brain Mood and Food Intake in Obesogenic Environment

Overcoming Limitations of Dieting by Focusing on Brain, Mood and Food Intake in Obesogenic Environment

Ladan Giahi ( PhD)

Dietitian & Immunonutritionist

Avicenna Research Institute

Scientific advances:

• Energy hemostasis….. Set points
• Neural circuits in hypothalamus and hindbrain… leptin discovery
• Systemic molecular and cellular homeostatic dysfunction rather than limited to fat accumulation
• Complex metabolic misbalances in key cell types including adipocytes, hepatocytes and myocytes with a different etiologies
  • Genetics
  • Epigenetic
  •  biological stress
  •  Chronic unhealthy diet
• Changing environment & lifestyle are the primary engines of the obesity epidemic.
• Metabolic need is translated into strong behavioral actions that successfully compete with other motivated behavior, the role of the “cognitive and emotional brain” cannot be neglected