Finally now there is a study which explains why we overeat and the blame goes to the hormone ghrelin.
In a recent study published last month, researchers discovered that the hormone ghrelin caused mice to seek out food even when they had just been fed.
Said lead researcher Dr Jeffrey Zigman, assistant professor at university of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, "We've shown that ghrelin affects behaviors related to eating and that it may consequently lead to overeating."
Dr Zigman says that the results most likely to also apply to humans because previous studies have shown that ghrelin also exists in humans and works in the same region of the brain.
In their work they showed that mice which were administered ghrelin seeked out food despite being fed.
"The mice's behavior had nothing to do with eating." Zigman said. "Their behavior was linked to obtaining the more pleasurable thing." ……..
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