Fatty foods enhance mood regardless of taste
The Independent:
A new study sheds light on why we reach for fatty foods like burgers and fries when feeling blue – and it may have little to do with the pleasure principle.
While exposed to sad or neutral music and images, researchers injected 12 non-obese, healthy subjects with fatty-acid solutions and saline infusions via gastric feeding tubes.
When injected with the fat solution, the subjects reported feeling less sad than those who were administered with a saline infusion.
Subjects also underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging scans so that researchers could chart their brain activity during the experiments.
The study, conducted out of the University of Leuven in Belgium, appeared in the Journal of Clinical Investigation last week.
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