Video: From Christmas to New Year: Why can't we stop eating?
2024 Author: Cody Thornton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 12:26
Even the first round of Christmas extravagances we got rid of. And yet, with the physiological functions still under stress due to the super work of these days, comforted only by the TV that hammers with the Biochestasi advertising, our thoughts always return there.
To the surviving slice of panettone in the wrapping. To the struffoli who escaped the attacks of the parentame. At the corner of panforte survived in the pantry.
Have you ever wondered why we can't stop eating during the Christmas holidays? Why do the good intentions of a healthy diet go on time to be blessed? Why unbuttoned everything possible, do we continue to eat in an irrepressible way?
In search of an answer, we found the scientific explanation given by the Guardian plausible and consoling.
As a rule, the brain thinks "from experience" and when, based on the information gathered in previous meals, we have eaten enough, it signals that it is time to stop.
A mechanism controlled by the levels of salt and sugar present in the blood that prevents glycemic overdose.
But when we upset our habits by exaggerating at lunch ("so then who dines"), nibbling panettone, nougat and mandarins, finally having dinner regularly, all washed down with little homeopathic doses of Bubbles or Champagne, it happens that the brain, in the role of inflexible food guardian goes haywire.
Unable to recognize the satiety threshold, he loosens his grip by forgetting to notify that enough is enough, when it is too much is too much.
Alcohol, the desire to adapt to the behavior of others, anxiety and excitement do the rest: these are the real reasons for overeating and Christmas self-indulgence.
Might as well put your stomach in peace and prepare yourself for the next round of extravagance? You decide!
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