Although we can no longer eat a single bite from the main course, we press the sweet dessert. German scientists may now have found the reason why it is so difficult to resist sweet after a heavy meal. They found that a certain process in the brain, which makes us feel felt after a meal, also causes us to taste sugar.
Experimental research at the Max Planck Institute shows that The mice that ate until they were eaten were hardly managed by another bite when they were offered a second main meal. However, when they offered them a sweet delicacy instead, they ate six times more calories And their brain has been activated in the area called paraventricular talamus.
People to whom scientists have given a sweet drink showed the same brain activity that included a group of brain cells called POMC neurons. Other mouse attempts showed that turning off this important activity in the brain meant that they were no longer overeating sugar when they were full.
“As for many people, it’s hard for me to say no when a chocolate dessert is available. From an evolutionary point of view, this makes sense because sugar provides fast energy and it is difficult to find, so our cave brains are programmed to get it when it goes, ” He thinks Dr. Henning Fenselau, the main author of the study from the Institute of Max Planck.
