Visual food cues can affect eating behavior - study
Regulating eating behavior is widely used in controlling obesity, but about half of those who receive guidance return to their original weight within five years.
Scientists show that in the inferior frontal gyrus, neural activity differs in response to food images, depending on whether those images are presented consciously or unconsciously. this difference was associated with scores on eating behaviors such as emotional eating and restrained eating. (photo credit: OSAKA METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY)ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
