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Really, don't go to the grocery store hungry - Mother Nature Network
You know you shouldn't, but now there's research to explain why.
Conventional wisdom says that if you go to the grocery store when you're hungry, you'll come home with more cookies than kale.
Recent research in the journal NeuroImage and published on Science Direct suggests there's some science to back up that theory. Researchers studied the effects that being hungry had on the brain responses of 122, healthy-weighted people between the ages of 8 and 75 (17 children; 38 teens; 36 adults; 31 elderly).
The participants were shown images of high- and low-calorie foods, as well as images of non-food items. Some of the participants had fasted and were hungry; some of them had eaten and were sated. For the study, researchers looked at participants' brain responses to the images while the participants were being scanned using fMRI or functional magnetic resonance imaging.
You know you shouldn't, but now there's research to explain why.
Conventional wisdom says that if you go to the grocery store when you're hungry, you'll come home with more cookies than kale.
Recent research in the journal NeuroImage and published on Science Direct suggests there's some science to back up that theory. Researchers studied the effects that being hungry had on the brain responses of 122, healthy-weighted people between the ages of 8 and 75 (17 children; 38 teens; 36 adults; 31 elderly).
The participants were shown images of high- and low-calorie foods, as well as images of non-food items. Some of the participants had fasted and were hungry; some of them had eaten and were sated. For the study, researchers looked at participants' brain responses to the images while the participants were being scanned using fMRI or functional magnetic resonance imaging.