Dependence on food devours the brain

The passion for junk food, like what some chips or chocolate cakes, can be just as dangerous for the waistline, as well as for the brain. That is the conclusion reached by researchers from Australia, we note that the desire to eat something fat negatively affects the brain.

Dependence from food   - Sweet, high-calorie and fatty foods - is a threat to both physical and mental to human health. When our brain there is a struggle between acute desire to eat cake with whipped cream and maintain a slim figure, suffering brain.

Effects Depending on the food It can be very different - from short-term memory disorders to significant disruptions in brain activity, which may even lead to a car accident! Researchers at Flinders University in Melbourne traced over how such desires affect a person's ability to concentrate, so the necessary drivers.

A group of volunteers who love chocolate, offered to pass a series of tests that determine the speed and severity of mental reactions. Not far from them was lying unpacked box with their favorite sweets. People saw the chocolate, but could not reach them. In the next room are the same sweet lovers passed a similar test, but without temptation chocolate.

The first group showed significantly weaker results than the second. Australian scientists believe that when we are struggling with the desire to eat something tasty, then in our minds there is a picture of this delicacy, which inhibits the normal activity of the brain, affecting the areas responsible for other tasks, including the math and memorization process.

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