{"id":1732,"date":"2008-10-17T11:43:05","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T11:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=1732"},"modified":"2015-10-17T08:44:03","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T06:44:03","slug":"obese-peoples-brains-show-less-pleasure-from-eating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=1732","title":{"rendered":"Obese People&#8217;s Brains Show Less Pleasure From Eating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New research from the US suggests that certain people may have a genetic predisposition to obesity because the reward centres in their brains respond sluggishly after eating, so to get more pleasure from eating they opt for foods denser in calories which makes them gain weight. The study was done by Eric Stice, psychology researcher at The University of Texas at Austin et al and it is published in the 17 October issue of Science. Obese people may have fewer dopamine receptors, so they overeat to compensate for this reward deficit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/articles\/125778.php\" target=_blank>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research from the US suggests that certain people may have a genetic predisposition to obesity because the reward centres in their brains respond sluggishly after eating, so to get more pleasure from eating they opt for foods denser in calories which makes them gain weight. The study was done by Eric Stice, psychology researcher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5209,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions\/5209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}