Our brains have an internal calorie counter, research suggests

Tuesday, October 21, 2014 - 20:30 in Mathematics & Economics

A new neuroimaging study suggests that our brain evaluates food based on caloric density, even when we're not conscious of how many calories something contains, which is perhaps why many of us prefer junk food.

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