Tag Archives: Motivation

Fat Hormone Influences Your Motivation to Eat

A new study helps to explain how leptin, a hormone produced by fat tissue, influences your motivation to eat. The researchers described for the first time a collection of leptin-responsive neurons in the brain’s lateral hypothalamic area (LHA). Those LHA neurons feed directly into the mesolimbic dopamine system, which controls the rewarding properties assigned to… Read More »

Isolation Motivation: Padraig Harrington’s top tips for staying ‘golf fit’ at home

So your favourite golf course has been padlocked, the driving range is a no-go zone and no amount of rolling will turn your back garden into a putting green. Don’t worry, the very best of help is at hand. Three-time major winner Pádraig Harrington has given Fitter Happier an exclusive insight into his very own… Read More »