Food Cravings (Page 2 of 2)

The study involved 12 people with normal and healthy body weights who were deprived of food before the study.

The study concluded that the very sight of food significantly increased metabolism in the whole brain and resulted in self-reports of hunger and desire for food.

One researcher suggested that advertising, candy machines, food shows and food displays have kept our brains constantly in the “on mode” whenever exposed to food stimuli thus greatly contributing to the obesity problem.

The second study illustrated how America has become complacent with being fat and lost the will to do anything about it. Along the lines of this mentality, it was discovered that American doctors no longer advised their overweight patients to lose weight.

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