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Fatty food on the brain

by Nick Vagnoni, Posted Feb 11th 2006 @ 6:09PM

Researchers at Nottingham University are exploring the ways our brains respond when we eat fatty foods. The goal, in part, is to learn why certain foods are pleasing and then hopefully design more healthful foods that still provide the pleasure and satisfaction of fatty ones. Along with fat content, taste, texture and smell are all factors in how and why someone enjoys a food, so researchers are giving test subjects milkshakes with varying fat contents and examining their responses via MRIs. Researchers will also examine how the brain responds to fatty foods when they are eaten versus when they are delivered directly to the stomach through a tube.

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Tags: brain, british isles, chemistry, diet, fatty foods, perception, pleasure, sensory, study

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