WHY DOES EATING FEEL SO GOOD?

The secret may lay in the head, not in the stomach, U.S. researchers reported.
Tests on rats show that the appetite hormone “ghrelin” acts on pleasure receptors in the brain.The findings may help researchers develop better diet drugs.

“In mice and rats “ghrelin” triggers the same neurons as delicious food, sexual experience, and many recreational drugs; that is, neurons that provide the sensation of pleasure and the expectation of reward,” the researchers write in Friday’s issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation.

My comment: Give me a break. Here’s what I see coming in the future, just pop a pill to duplicate the pleasures of eating, sex and marijuana. So, it looks like we will have a population that’s walking around with perpetual smiling faces.

The thing the article above didn’t mention was the side effects. Probably grows facial hair on women and acts as a depilatory for men. Oy Vey!

To read full article go to: Why does eating feel so good? It’s all in the head – Yahoo! News