It's common knowledge that you shouldn't go grocery shopping when you're hungry, because you're more likely to buy junky, fattening foods. Now a new brain scan study shows why: your brain craves junk food more on an empty stomach.
The study led by Yale University and University of Southern California researchers involved 14 men and women — some were of healthy, normal weight, while others were obese. The researchers hooked up the participants to a device that controlled their glucose levels intravenously, in order to approximate hunger and fullness, and then sent them through a functional MRI (fMRI) scanner.
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Ya just gotta wonder how much this cost the taxpayers!
What bunch of brain dead geeks!
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