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Obese participants underwent a strict, six-month weight loss regime which featured “high-fiber, low glycemic” and "behaviour change education”.
Do you worry you’re stuck craving chips even when you know you should be eating healthily? Fear not: new research has shown that it’s possible to ‘retrain’ the brain to be addicted to low-calorie fare instead of junk food.
“We don't start out in life loving French fries and hating, for example, whole wheat pasta," said Susan B. Roberts, co-corresponding author of the study published on Monday in the journal Nutrition & Diabetes.
"This conditioning happens over time in response to eating – repeatedly! - what is out there in the toxic food environment."
The study put a group of obese volunteers through a six-month weight loss program while gauging their reaction to different foods, scanning the areas of the brain associated with learning and addiction using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/s...to-healthy-food--instead-of-junk-9706299.html
Do you worry you’re stuck craving chips even when you know you should be eating healthily? Fear not: new research has shown that it’s possible to ‘retrain’ the brain to be addicted to low-calorie fare instead of junk food.
“We don't start out in life loving French fries and hating, for example, whole wheat pasta," said Susan B. Roberts, co-corresponding author of the study published on Monday in the journal Nutrition & Diabetes.
"This conditioning happens over time in response to eating – repeatedly! - what is out there in the toxic food environment."
The study put a group of obese volunteers through a six-month weight loss program while gauging their reaction to different foods, scanning the areas of the brain associated with learning and addiction using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/s...to-healthy-food--instead-of-junk-9706299.html
