date:May 15, 2013
A study published in Current Biology shows that foods with calories trigger more brain responses linked to eating than calorie-free foods do, regardless of whether they taste better. The Yale University Psychologist and study author Dana Small explains that there appear to be two unrelated brain circuits that kick into gear when people consume things. One is related to consciously liking flavors, while the other responds to glucose in the blood.
Previous animal studies have found that mice, rat