Scientists from Imperial College London (UK), led by researcher Tony Goldstone, have shown that, si skip breakfast, hours later our brain tends to have “cravings” for fatty, high-calorie foods.
This is clear from an investigation presented in theNeuroscience Congress 2012, which is celebrated these days in the United States, made from images of the brain of 21 men and women of normal weight and 25 years of age. For two consecutive days, they were shown photographs of high-calorie foods while being placed in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner. They were asked to rate their appetite for a number of foods, including chocolate, pizza, vegetables, and fish. On the first day, the volunteers were asked not to eat breakfast before the scan, but the next day, an hour before the scan, they were given a 750-calorie breakfast based on cereals, bread and jam.
When at lunch they were urged to? Consume all they wanted, those who had spent the morning fasting showed aclear predisposition towards high calorie foods. Individuals who had not eaten breakfast ingested 20 percent more calories.
The scans showed that the brain region that may be involved in the attraction to food, theorbitofrontal cortex, became more active when the stomach was empty. In short, stopping eating first thing in the morning returns to fatty foods and sweets more? Attractive? for our brain and favors an unbalanced diet, in addition to enhancing voracity.
