In the brains of people suffering from obesity, in the form of food activates the pleasure center, according to Daily Mail, citing a study by researchers from Spain and Australia. While the slim people are centers of memory and conditioned reflexes. Scientists explained that brain activity full of people similar to what happens in the mind of the addict with drugs.

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In the brains of people suffering from obesity, in the form of food activates the pleasure center, according to Daily Mail, citing a study by researchers from Spain and Australia. While the slim people are centers of memory and conditioned reflexes. Scientists explained that brain activity full of people similar to what happens in the mind of the addict with drugs.

This conclusion neuroscientists made based on the study of the brain of people a standard of stature and overweight. Volunteers were placed in an MRI machine and showed the pictures: some were neutral inedible items and other delicious food. The last reaction of the brain in a slim and fat was completely different. The activity of the latter allowed us to compare their dependence on food with a dependence on drugs.

"there is a debate over whether to call obesity a consequence of "food addiction", but very few studies that have looked for the truth in this matter," said Spanish scientist Oren Contreras-Rodriguez. Abnormal activity of the brain will at an early stage to determine the predisposition of individuals to be overweight. And in the future, the scientist hopes to weaken the activity of to reduce cravings fat people for food.