Photo by Per Ola WibergJackie was doing everything in her power to stay on her weight loss plan, but it felt like her family and co-workers were constantly trying to sabotage it. Her coworkers were constantly tempting her with cookies, cakes and donuts. And her husband was not making it any easier. Last week he brought home a carton of cookies ‘n cream ice cream. He knew that she was trying to eat healthier and he bought her favorite ice cream! What was he trying to do?!
Even though she had been tempted, she had not touched any of these high fat foods since she went on her diet. That is because she had very little self control when it came to sweets. She couldn’t eat just one cookie or one scoop of ice cream. Even a small taste seemed to unleash something inside her that left her wanting more. And not just that day. The cravings lingered for a few days afterwards. What was it about high fat foods that make them so irresistible to her?
Study:
A study coming out of UT Southwestern Medical Center may have the answer to that question. They decided to look at how the brain reacted in relation to the consumption of high fat foods, since they knew that the brain utilizes some of the fats that we eat in its structure. To find out how the brain reacted to different fats, researchers experimented on animals by exposing them to various types of fat (palmitic acid, monounsaturated fatty acid and oleic acid). The fat was either injected directly into the brain, infused through the carotid artery or fed to the animals through a stomach tube.
What they found out is that only
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