Chocolate prefer the brain that an erotic image – Digital Liberal

Published 11/14/2015 – The brain enjoys thanks to the food and especially with foods like chocolate that stimulates as much as an erotic image, especially men, according to a study neuroscientist food and emotions .

Promoted by Channel Kitchen and led by a team of physiologists, neurologists, researchers, engineers and psychologists, it was found the response of the human brain at the sight of food and during the act of eating, so it was followed neural activity in a representative sample of 40 people aged 18 to 80 years.

When eating an emotional brain activation occurs, ie, “food excites us,” he stated the director of Canal Cocina, Mandi Ciriza, on a study whose coordinator, Professor of Physiology at the Institute CSIC-UMH Neuroscience Miguel Valdeolmillos, stressed that “it is important that we pioneer and between 7 and 8 years eating”.

In the first stage the favorite foods of the Spaniards were determined through market research, resulting which are ham, tortilla, traditional stews and chocolate, which joined the tartar salmon to contrast the brain’s response to unknown flavors.

After the brain’s response during viewing and during the intake of those foods and dishes, with results showing that there is “a strong emotional and involuntary activation in the brain, when we analyzed the food and when he tried “indicated in the study.

View and eating chocolate generates the most intense emotional response , more men (69%) than women (62%), and superior to other visual stimuli as positive images of sex, travel and sports.

Other conclusions are that the female brain is triggered simply by looking at the food, while the male does to a lesser extent and need to test, or that this body is not conservative because it shows a positive emotional response with flavors that do not know, something that occurs more often in men.

To measure the physiological reaction and electrical brain activity of the participants was recorded with devices to measure neural activity, changes in the dermis and heart rate.