You thought once, twice, three times, but could not resist: it used the substance. She soon set off on his head an addictive process: when you touch your tongue, did release sensations in the brain, a chemical responsible for feelings of reward and pleasure, also triggered by drugs such as heroin and morphine.
Unconsciously, you move your tongue and jaw. If you were a child, a smile would open. The immediate response of your body: I want more!
This was not caused by cheap a new lifestyle drug. It is an old acquaintance who, consumed in moderation, it is essential to our survival: food.
More specifically those with large amounts of fat, salt and sugar, ingredients, science shows, make us ask for more, more and more. These are called food palatable, not only because they are tasty and enjoy, but because they stimulate our appetite and make us eat without stopping. Stir these ingredients into the brain mechanisms that tend to be affected also by hard drugs like heroin and the latest discovery, marijuana.
Just feeling a little taste of potato chips or take the first bite into a chocolate cake to trigger the vicious cycle. Eating foods high in sugar, fat and salt only makes us eat more foods rich in sugar, fat and salt. To understand this desire without end, the science of fat, which has already reviewed our metabolism and physiological responses, focus now shifts. Research has sought to what happens in our body while we eat.
But the real question is: what happens in our brain? Understanding this is essential for us to reprogram our minds. And to start a rehabilitation food, the only way to think like a lean.
Desire to eat
In June, scientists at the University of California and the Italian Institute of Technology published a study that showed that the intake of fatty foods in the gut releases endocannabinoids. Any resemblance of the term Cannabis sativa, the marijuana plant, is no coincidence. These chemicals are similar to those found in a cigarette made with her and that usually cause a voracious appetite, the famous post-based munchies.
In the experiment, rats fed fat could not stop eating. But those who ate only protein or carbohydrate were satisfied more quickly. Probably the endocannabinoids reduce the message of satiety that originates in the intestines and is sent to the brain.
It’s not just fat that has this ability to make us continue eating even when we are supposedly satisfied. All food can neutralize the pleasurable satiety signals. There also enter the food rich in sugar and salt in our brain that release more dopamine, a neurotransmitter responsible for feelings of happiness and well-being than other types of food. A trick of nature to prevent the cavemen survived.
In the diet of our ancestors, food with salt, fat or sugar were rare, the meals were not more than 10% fat, the fats that come from meat. Our addiction to salt is not fully explained by science. But researchers suspect that is an evolutionary strategy to compensate for the sodium lost in sweat. Since fat and sugar are natural reserves of energy, were scheduled to grab them whenever we find them ahead.
But we know that if you eat sugar, fat and refined carbohydrates, which are rapidly converted into sugar in digestion, repeatedly, it will change its circuits of pleasure. Over time, brain cells will not respond so strongly to the stimulus caused by these ingredients. As with heroin, the effect weakens over time. And then you need more quantity of the substance to feel the same cheap.
Food addiction
The delight with food works in two phases. First come the preliminaries: smell something nice, go outside the restaurant which has experienced a dinner of the gods or watch an ad for Oreos on TV. From this came the real power of food: the anticipation of pleasure. These stimuli are enough to make our brain to release dopamine. The substance also responsible for the impulse to escape, creates desire and makes us run after what is necessary to eat that dish tempting.
When you actually grabs the hotness, more dopamine is released. And also opioids. These substances will not only make you feel pleasure, but will increase your desire and will motivate you to get more food. To prevent this cycle begins, you must stop in the beginning. Change the way home from work not to pass in front of this restaurant and avoid getting too close to the banks of pastel not to be seduced by the smell of frying. The pleasure afforded only by the idea that you’re about to indulge in a delicious as these can make you lose control.
The proof came from a study in which researchers from Yale University, USA, gathered 48 women between lean and overweight, to test how were tempted to see a chocolate milkshake. After 4 to 6 hours fasting, the volunteers looked at a picture of the drink. Only then could actually taste it. In two instances, their brains were scanned. In some women, the scientists observed a pattern of activity of neurons also common in drug addiction: the mere suggestion of the food system activated more pleasure and reward than eat it properly.
These women had a craving for higher calorie foods than normal as they release more dopamine in the preliminaries and a lower than average satisfaction to snag the delights, when chemists welfare were less than expected. Result: they ate more by way of compensation.
Interestingly, this pattern was not seen only in obese women, but also in thin. Being in the weight does not mean that you are not addicted to food. Some people compensate for the binge days with almost anything without putting in the mouth or exercise a lot, but run the risk of gaining weight later.
Euphemisms for fat people
For those unaware, is a euphemism figure of speech that employs terms agreeable to soften certain expressions. Today we will list here twenty-eight euphemisms for overweight people, check out:
- This has large bones;
- Robust him, right?
- Carrier muscles flaccid;
- Possessed of a high percentage of adipose tissue;
- It’s a lot of fluid retention;
- He is peripherally underprivileged;
- Renaissance beauty;
- Too low for current weight;
- You have a lot of inertia;
- He grew horizontally;
- Guy who loves to have a good mass;
- There goes well fed …
- Privileged to have no tendency to anemia;
- Aesthetically impaired;
- It has a certain handedness;
- Person with enhanced gravity;
- Individuals with strong positions;
- The guy is a real point of reference;
- You’re generously shaped;
- With its sharp curves;
- Easily identifiable;
- Figure alternative body;
- Diametrically long;
- Substantial;
- Slender swollen;
- Occupying too much space;
- Across grown;
- Rich in lipids;
