The real reason you can’t stop overeating
Deborah Clegg, a dietician and internal medicine professor at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, has made a stunning discovery: fat in our favourite foods—including butter and steak—doesn’t just go straight to our hips, it goes first to our brain. That’s problematic because the fat turns off the hormones that are in charge of regulating our food consumption and body weight. “The message,” says Clegg, “would be not to wait for your body to tell you you’re full when you have a meal loaded with fat. Make yourself stop eating. Because the likelihood of your body paying attention to those signals is not very good.”
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