Weight loss through the brain Bashny.Net

Anyone who has ever dieted knows that after long and hard work, sometimes you want something to reward yourself. Something high in calories. But there is one way to avoid it, and generally make a diet more effective, maintaining the right weight and shape, thus avoiding permanent strong-willed tension.

Sweet reward

95 percent of those who sat on a diet, you return all lost weight over the next five years. To such conclusion came the research "the Council on weight discrimination." Possibly to blame for the fact that the success of diets and weight loss associated solely with self-control or that old love for something high in calories is extremely difficult to put down.

At least not in the open talking about it. A recent study describes that if you feed rats a high-calorie food, their appetite to the more healthy eating is markedly reduced. The same processes, according to researchers, may occur and with people.

On the behavioral level, our brain wants junk food, perceiving it as a reward, a source of pleasure.

"As if you just came for lunch, ate ice cream, but still go and take more when they hear that the van arrived with ice cream" – makes the analogy of Margaret Morris from the University of New South Wales.





Here's how it works. After a long workout, You sometimes do not deny yourself the pleasure to taste something high in calories. Such a small reward. Thus, there is a connection between exercise and fun, and its not so easy to break. Before you realize it, you will return back just herded calories.Feel like Pavlov's dog, isn't it? But there is another side – if we start exposing your brain to harmful food, then can't we train him so that he wanted well?

"Under stress you can eat a brownie, says Susan Roberts, head of the laboratory energeticheskogo metabolism center for the study of human nutrition, USA, and Professor at the tufts University in Massachusetts. – During the next stress you eat another brownie, and rest assured, so will be repeated every time. Our brain is so constituted that creates a stable Association between A and B".

Our brain is able to rebuild

The trick is to teach the brain to accept healthy and not junk food as source of pleasure. Most recently, Roberts published a small study where it was argued that you can easily replace junk food rich in fiber and proteins products with exactly the same taste as those that dieters people used to have.

The pleasure that the brain seeks and finds, therefore, quietly replaced, and the man quite calmly goes on a healthy diet.

Thirteen participants with excess weight eight losing weight described in the research methodology, and five of the control group was made by brain MRI at the beginning and end of the 6 month period. During the scanning, they were shown pictures of familiar foods such as grilled chicken and chocolate, and then more healthy and low calorie, like salads and grilled chicken.

The final scan revealed that the participants changed the brain centers responsible for pleasure and habit. When I first showed healthy food, their neurons were rushing to the pleasure center. The activity of neurons in response to images of high-calorie food was much lower. The conclusion reached by scientists, is quite clear: within six months, the brain of the first group of participants preprogrammable in preference to low-calorie food.

"Overall, the result was expected, because at first we noticed these changes, based on the reports that were given to us by the participants themselves, says Roberts. – Nevertheless, to see the changes at the neural level was absolutely stunning."

Change of habits instead of willpower

Reprogramming of the brain and build new, healthy habits allows people to remain in the desired form and after completing the course. In the end we are talking about a simple change of diet.

However, to change eating habits through behavioral therapy is much more effective than just relying on willpower.

"If people want a sundae with nuts, I will tell him: "Good, but you do: you buy ice cream without sugar and mixed with cereals rich in fiber," says Roberts. Is tasty and does not raise blood sugar, which affects the feeling of hunger, plus it slows down digestion and makes you well-fed."

Yes, a change of diet for burning calories, use a long time ago, but now it has become clear that it can work at the level of our brain, building more healthy eating habits.

"The desire of a particular food, a particular product – in fact just the combination of taste and flow of calories which you receive the product – sums up Roberts. – Changing the diet, You will still be able to enjoy the taste, but You will have no dopamine of madness. But the most striking is to change habits is much easier than you think." published

P. S. And remember, only by changing their consumption — together we change the world! ©

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