Why are you sometimes able to eat a lot of candy or something sweet even though you cannot eat anymore of something fatty or savory, as if you have a second stomach for sweet foods?
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I think it has something to do with the following – which is something I was reading about on a study into obesity awhile back:
Hard to believe, but from the study they realised the body ‘knows’ when you’ve ate too much fat and too much sugar, the brain just tells you you’ve had enough of each by making you feel sick or full.
The dangerous thing is when you eat foods that combine the both of then (a mixture of both fat and sugar). Mostly deserts. e.g Ice Cream and Cakes.
When you eat both with the recipe ingredients added as 50/50, the brain is unable to tell when you’ve had too much; they sort hinder the brains ability to work out if it’s full or not. That’s why you can keep eating and eating ice cream ( which usually is 50/50 ) and not really get too sick.
When the brain is hindered in this way, it’s quite a dangerous thing as it’s been making us ‘fat people’.
Edit: just found someone asking the same thing as you and they’ve also refereed to the same study. Might give you further reading:
https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/43673/5050-sugar-fat-mixture
Sometimes the desire or the experience of the object is greater than the sensation of full-nes. Kinda like if ur dad wants to go for a run, but u are tired, but ur friend wants to play airsoft, so u play airsoft
> as if you have a second stomach for sweet foods
It is because – in a roundabout way – you do. Technically it is a second stomach for desserts/snacks, but usually desserts are sweet so it can be considered somewhat equivalent (hence why it was roundabout). And the effect stacks, you can have dessert to your dessert! But the spatial shenanigans has a limit, the *second* second stomach will start feeling full much sooner than the first second one (god I love this sentence). And as you iterate, it gets quicker each time.
As a post-script: the older you get, the less your body seems capable of performing those spatial transformations. Or perhaps its just a matter of perception and the amount stays the same, but decreases in relation to the amount you can normally eat (as that increases as you grow)?
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