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Fat people 'like food less'
Mark Prigg, Technology Correspondent17.10.08
OBESE people may enjoy eating less than other people. Scientists say a reduced ability to savour food may have a direct link with over-eating.
The obese may eat more to compensate for a lack of response from the pleasure circuits in their brains whereas lean people feel more satisfied after eating less.
The trait appears to be genetically driven, suggesting that some people are born with an over-eating problem.Researchers in the US conducted brain scans to see what happened inside the heads of women and teenage girls when they drank a chocolate milkshake.
They found that the reaction in the part of the brain that generates feelings of pleasure was much weaker in fatter women.
Reader views (3)
Another load of codswallop (its that fattening?) As for enjoying food I get more enjoyment from the fillet steak than the leaves the restaurant serve it up with.
If people with large bones didn't enjoy their food they would not be as chunky and happy as they are. Inside every skinny person there is a fat person trying to get out.
Anyway size is not always related to amount consumed as some people are just better at burning off food intake than others just like an engine that uses more or less fuel with the same result.
Now where did I put that breast of lamb?
- Melvyn Windebank, Canvey Island, Essex
Do people actually get paid for surveys like this?
Fat people are fat because they eat too much. End of.
Can I have my handsome fee now please...
- Phil, Kent
Yes of course they do. In fact they hate the stuff. They especially reserve their loathing for cakes and chips.
- Squiz, Islington
