A new study suggests that the appetite-inducing hormone ghrelin increases the incentive for humans to eat high-calorie foods, even on a full stomach. The results were reported at The Endocrine Society's 94th Annual Meeting in Houston.You fat rodent, you.
In the study, rats lacking the ghrelin receptor gene ate less of a sweet treat after a full meal than did rodents whose ghrelin receptor gene was intact.
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Friday, August 03, 2012
If You Always Have Room For Dessert, Ghrelin May Be To Blame
And, assuming that this is the least bit true, if you eat the dessert, blame yourself.
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