Brain responses of obese individuals are more weakly linked to feelings of hunger
Tuesday, July 13, 2010 - 01:14
in Psychology & Sociology
Research to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB), the foremost society for research into all aspects of eating and drinking behavior, finds that that feelings of hunger have less influence on how the brain responds to the smell and taste of food in overweight than healthy weight individuals.