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Linkfest: Brain's 'Sixth Sense' for Calories
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Scientist Ivan de Araujo and his colleagues recently published a study that shows the brain can sense the calories in food, independent of the taste mechanism. Their finding that the brain's reward system is switched on by this "sixth sense" machinery could have implications for understanding the causes of obesity. The scientific questions raised by the discovery of the brain's calorie-sensing system "are extremely important to understanding the pathogenesis and sociology of human obesity," wrote Zane Andrews and Tamas Horvath in a preview of the Araujo's study. It's the BPP's Ramble.
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