PraxisFitness

I happened across some research news the other day on Yahoo… it seems that men are better at turning off their brains to resist cravings than women are.  An excerpt:

In the experiment, the volunteers did not eat for a day and were then asked to suppress all thoughts of food.

When questioned further, the male participants reported fewer hunger pangs and fewer cravings for food.

Then, by using a brain scanner, scientists tried to see if this was backed up by differences in the patterns of brain activation between men and women.

After the men were told to resist their cravings, there was far less activity in regions of the brain called the amygdala, hippocampus, orbitofrontal cortex and striatum, reports the BBC.

The men seemed to do better and brain scans later revealed they had far less activity than the women in a part of the brain linked to desire for food.

So does this mean a gal should just give up resisting foods that she 1 - knows aren’t conducive to their goals and 2 - doesn’t necessarily even really want? Heck no! I’m not a researcher but I’m pretty sure the old adage still applies: “Practice makes perfect”.

Stick to your guns and keep trying,
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