Why women cannot stop eating junk food?
Posted: 04/06/2015 09:31 PM IST
Junk food is the most lovable food for all ages. Due to its delicious taste, everyone gets attracted to it. Although many lifestyle diseases are increasing day by day, the junk food habit cannot be withdrawn from them. When compared to women and men, the study revealed that women are more women find it hard to say no to junk food when compared to men. The study was published in FASEB Journal.
“We have found differences between males and females. Our experiments showed that eating a healthy diet during adolescence could reverse the junk-food preference in males but not females,” said Jessica Gugusheff, post-doctoral researcher at University of Adelaide in Australia. “Too much junk food consumed late in pregnancy for humans has the potential to be more harmful to the child than excess junk food early in the pregnancy", she added.
The junk food preference is believed to result from a desensitisation of the normal reward system (the opioid and dopamine signalling pathway) fuelled by highly palatable high fat, high sugar diets. Offspring with less sensitive reward systems need more fat and sugar to get the same "good feeling". "This brain area grows at its fastest during these critical windows and is therefore most susceptible to alteration at these times," project leader Beverly Muhlhausler from University of Adelaide explained.
AW: Lizitha
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