Fig. 1: Discrimination exposure increases risk for obesity by disrupting the brain gut system. | Nature Mental Health

Fig. 1: Discrimination exposure increases risk for obesity by disrupting the brain gut system.

From: Discrimination exposure impacts unhealthy processing of food cues: crosstalk between the brain and gut

Fig. 1: Discrimination exposure increases risk for obesity by disrupting the brain gut system.

Discrimination exposure is associated with increased food-cue reactivity—especially towards unhealthy sweet foods—in the frontal-striatal regions involved in reward processing, motivation and executive control, as well as altered gut metabolites in the glutamate pathway associated with oxidative stress and inflammation.

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