How ice-cream and burgers control your brain

clipped from www.reuters.com Ice-cream and burgers can control your brain: study NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - It's official. That tub of ice-cream really can control your brain and say "eat me." clipped from www.reuters.com clipped from www.foxnews.com Ice Cream, Burgers Likely to Control Your Brain, Study Finds A U.S. study by UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas has found that fat from certain foods such ice-cream and burgers heads to the brain. clipped from www.emaxhealth.com New research shows that eating saturated fat in foods, especially one particular type of fat, tells our brain to keep eating. The findings explain why splurging on ice cream and burgers can sabotage our efforts to control appetite and lose weight. The study also contributes to understanding how insulin resistance develops. clipped from www.utsouthwestern.edu Dr. Deborah Clegg and colleagues suggest that fat molecules from certain foods can change brain chemistry in a very short period, causing appetite-suppressing signals to be ignored.