Brain’s power to sense the calories

Posted on March 30, 2008 at 10:16 am.
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brain-languagemap.png Ivan de Araujo and colleagues have found that the brain can sense the calories in food, independent of the taste mechanism. The finding that the brain’s reward system is switched on by this “sixth sense” machinery could have implications for understanding the causes of obesity.




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