Comfort Food: With Mac & Cheese, You’re Never Alone

Comfort Food:
With Mac & Cheese, You’re Never Alone

Show Notes

Hunger makes us reach for the food that provides us with what we need at that moment. But there are different types of hunger and our brain and our stomach tell us that there are needs that must be filled by connections with people and not just our favourite comfort food. A new study shows that even one day of being alone makes our brain respond as if we’ve been fasting. Food feeds us and fills us up, as does connections.

Major Sources Include:
1. Vilma Portillo, Cody Malbeuf Interview, December 10, 2020
2. Dr. Livia Tomova Interview, December 4, 2020
3. Dr. Jordan D. Troisi Interview, December 9, 2020
4. The Neuroscience of Unmet Needs, Social Neuroscience
5. Acute social isolation evokes midbrain craving responses to human hunger, Nature Neuroscience
6. Chicken Soup Really Is Good for the Soul: “Comfort Food” Fulfills the Need to Belong, Psychological Science.
7. The Year of the Comfort Food Comeback, FarmRich

Host and Writer: Peg Fong
Director: Callie O’Reilly
Theme music: Ian Lefeuvre and Ari Posner
Engineer: Geoff Devine
Producers: Debbie O’Reilly and Guillermo Serrano
Executive Producer: Terry O’Reilly

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Show Notes

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