Discovery

I was always thinking that women can control their hunger better than men. Well, I have many friends–boys–who can not do something before they eat something. While women, we can control our hunger, and stay doing something till finish before get meals.

It is rare to see a woman eats 5 times a day, but it is usual for a man, even with a bigger size foods.

But, somehow, scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory found the contrary fact. What a ground breaking–they said that men, but not women, are able to control their brain’s response to their own favorite foods.

The finding helping people to understand the neurobiological mechanisms underlyine ability to control food intake, and suggest new pharmacological methods or other interventions to help people regulate eating behavior and maintain a healthy weight, according to Gene-Jack Wang, the lead author.

The researcher used (PET) scanning to monitor brain activity in 13 female and 10 male volunteers. During the scan, subjects were asked to smell, taste, observe, and react to the food, but not eat it, where then found in both men and women, a variety of brain areas associated with emotional regulation, conditioning, and motivation “lit up,” as the response to the tempting foods.

The funny fact for me is : according to the finding, even though the women said they were less hungry when trying to inhibit their response to the food, their brains were still firing away in the regions that control the drive to eat

What does this mean? Well, you may say that women really can cover their truly feeling, but not the brain. Ah, women!

Source : ScienceDaily, Credit : LifeInfoCentre

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