Why we can’t keep our hands off candy bars and co.
Chocolate bars, potato chips and chips - why can’t we just leave them to the left in the supermarket? Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Metabolic Research in Cologne, Germany, in collaboration with Yale University, have now shown that foods with a high fat and sugar content change our brain: If we regularly eat even small amounts of them, the brain learns to want to continue consuming precisely these foods.
Why do we like unhealthy and fattening foods so much? How does this preference develop in the brain? "Our predisposition to high-fat and high-sugar foods, the so-called Western diet, could be innate or develop as a result of obesity. ...
