Fatty Foods Can Calm the Soul and Makes People Happy
Fatty Foods
Fatty foods are not only delicious on the tongue and stomach. Fatty foods also can calm the soul and makes people happy. Although fatty foods are not well taken continuously.
Fatty Foods Can Calm the Soul and Makes People Happy
“Fatty foods can make us appear to reduce emotional upset, even though we are not aware of eating fat. Fat that is inserted into the abdomen can cause emotional and physical changes.” clear psychiatrist Dr. Luke Van Oudenhove, as reported by HealthDay, Sunday (31/07/2011).
This is why people who eat ice cream after a breakup can feel better. Ice cream containing the fat can be a healer of emotional feelings by making people sad and people emotions become quiet. Is there a connection between the signal coming out of the mouth or the stomach to the brain?
“Researchers previously have handled these questions by focusing on how to smell, taste and appearance of foods affect emotions,” said Dr.. Van Oudenhove, who was in his postdoctoral at the University of Leuven in Belgium. According to this study is the first. Researchers through sensory stimulation by injecting fatty acids directly into the stomach, without being noticed by the subject if they get fat or saline.
To conduct this study, researchers recruited 12 non-obese people (not fat). Healthy volunteers will then receive a fatty acid or salt solution through a feeding tube (feeding tube). By using functional MRI (fMRI), researchers also looked at the brain waves of volunteers such as feeling sad or neutral music heard, and also observed the expression of his face as sad and when listening to music.
“To create a volunteer sad, we use music and movies that can make them wince (sadly), which makes the mood down 2.5 points from 10. However, fatty acids can help reduce the drop points by 1 point,” explained Dr. Van Oudenhove. According to Drs. Van Oudenhove, in his own brain researchers found that induced sadness can lead to a change of about 3 to 4 percent.
“Quite a lot, but the rate of change was down to less than 1 percent after the subjects received doses of fatty acids, at least in most brain regions analyzed,” said Dr. Van Oudenhove. It is unclear whether other ingredients in foods will have the same effect. Dr. Van Oudenhove said more research is needed to determine whether these findings may have value in the treatment of obesity, depression or eating disorders.
