الجمعة، 12 أغسطس 2011

Thinking of food reduces the desire to eat

Human thinking in dealing with a particular type of food makes them feel less desire to eat it. This is revealed researchers at the University Carnegie Mellon.

The study published in the journal "Science" that, for example, thinking someone is in the eating hamburgers inhibits many of his desire to take a piece of hamburger, which is contrary to prevailing belief, who says that Imagine food and thinking about it stimulates the appetite to eat this food.

Most scientists believe that the thinking of food drives the same neurological process that occurs when people eat this food or smell the odor or see.

But Carey Muruadj head of the research team that conducted the study and his colleagues are now believed that the more human thinking is in the eating, the less desire to eat it. Muruadj say that the evidence shows that when humans imagine eating that they desire full can actually be less willingness to address this food.

Muruadj explains that thinking in the food and its taste and smell, shape increases the appetite, but that the process of mental imagination of man that deals with this food actually reduces the desire.

He adds that "Most people think that to imagine the type of food more than the desire and raises their appetite. Our discovery shows that it is not that simple."

In one experiment, conducted by the research team asked a group of people to imagine all 33 of them it puts a coin in the washing machine at a rate of one coin at a time. He asked another team to imagine each of them that put 30 coins in the washer and he eats three pieces of candy, one after the other, while the request of the third group to imagine each of them that establishes three coins and eat thirty pieces of candy, one after the other.

When everyone had finished, were allowed to eat pieces of candy bowl full of candy and the result was that those who imagine that they ate 30 pieces ate much less than those who imagine that they ate three pieces only when they have put the pot.

Muruadj said, "Our conclusion that the habit is not only governed by the sensory input from vision, smell, sound and touch, but also how the mental representation of the experience of consumption."

  

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