Is 'Food Porn' Making Us Fat?
by Siti Zawani
@ 23 Oct 2015
A recent review of scientific studies suggests that excessive looking could actually be making us fatter after all.
The argument is that, when we see an attractive image of food, blood rushes to the parts of our brain associated with taste. We experience the desire to eat, even if we’re not hungry. According to one of the authors of the review, Professor Charles Spence of Oxford University, this has been measured in brain scans. Manufacturers and chefs are getting increasingly sophisticated in the way they present food, especially by understanding what’s going on in our brain when we look at their product. “When you see a picture of food on a package you imagine what it would be like to eat it,” says Spence. Get full details of this phenomenon here:
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