Sunday, February 17, 2013

Why are we so drawn to the sweet?

Why A delicious pastries and cakes we have, "delicious" and we are ready to forget about the diet, try to find specialists. It turned out that. The taste preferences of the incontinence is not caused by a lack of self-control Scientists at Northwestern University Feinberg (USA) on how the symptoms of hunger in the human brain and how they hang established by the action of neurons. Scientists conducted brain scans of volunteers 2 times. The first time you have limited access to donuts, and the second -. After eight hours of fasting Both times, the participants after the experiment showed pictures of candy. When people saw the images after eating sweet, their brains did not show much interest in photography. But were activated after a hunger strike of the brain quickly in observation sweets. According to neurologists, in this process the spatial attention network moves the brain hunger object of desire - in this case, the images of desserts. Scientists believe that if this area of the brain was missing, people would not eat to control your appetite and even if they are not hungry. In the brain, there is a very complex system, the attention to the needs of our objects in the environment, such as food, if we want to help guide researchers.

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