Thursday 7 July 2011

Why We Love Chips

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Eating just one chip (potato crisp, French fries, or whatever you call them) without then devouring the rest is almost impossible for most people to do. Now scientists have worked out why it's so difficult to walk away from tasty but unhealthy food.

The fats in these snacks make trigger a surprising biological mechanism that likely drives our gluttonous behaviour. The culprit is natural marijuana-like chemicals in the body called endocannabinoids, researchers from University of California, Irvine found.

1 comment(s):

Otis P. Driftwood said...

This is why they NEVER let me go get fast food from the drive-thru by myself. It could be enough for 8 people and there will be NO fries left by the time I get back home.