Scientists have found a way to wean people away from the craving for fast food – Nord portal

British scientists conducted clinical trials food additive which reduces the craving to eat fast food. Studies have shown positive results. People refused to use only high-calorie foods, healthy foods at law did not apply.

Researchers from the London College Imeperskogo invented a new food additive, she writes about foreign scientific edition of The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. The addition of air is called inulin-propionate, and it has already been successfully tested on 20 volunteers. They drank a cocktail with 10 grams of the substance, and then the people were shown pictures of different food photos, this time fixing the activity of the brain using MRI.

It was found that neural activity in the pleasure center has decreased, due to which desire to eat high-calorie foods depicted in the pictures, the subjects had less. Then, all offered consume pasta with tomato sauce without limitation in the number. And those who drank a cocktail laced with, ate 10% less, in contrast to the control group.