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The secret to losing weight according to science

Despite massive government, medical and individual efforts to win the war against obesity, the average adult is 10 kilos heavier today than in 1960. Our growing circumference adds about 200,000 million dollars to our health expenditure, which amounts to a serious health crisis.Is it time to lose weight?

The secret to losing weight according to science

The Drug research has not come up with a pill that helps people lose weight and not recover it..Traditional approaches such as diet and exercise may work in the short term, but people almost inevitably regain weight.lost.Randomized controlled trials of weight loss surgery have shown some improvements in diabetes, but not in mortality, cancer and cardiovascular disease.

If you ever invented a « pill »as a weight solution, for this to work it should affect and change our brain .In particular the primitive areas of what we call the "emotional brain." These circuits control the tension and stress that consumes emotions, thoughts and behaviors.By changing them, we would have the opportunity to address The root cause of problems related to overweight: stress. While some overweight and obesity are caused by genetics, research is indicating more and more that stress plays an important role in increasing of weight.Many people under stress resort to food as an unconscious solution.

The secret to losing weight according to science

Researchers have already set out to develop a neuroscience-based approach to regulate weight control and deal with common excesses that we all face.Through training of the emotional brain, the idea would be to use neuroscience-based tools to change the brain, so that the whole range of common excesses fades away.

The method has shown promising results. The emotional brain is the central command for weight and common excesses. It includes the centers of fear, reward and hunger.When that brain is in tension, the three centers promote weight gain and overeating.We have strong units that do exactly what we know we shouldn't do.We can't help it! Our emotional brain is in tension.Stress ramps therefore influence food reward values, increasing hunger for carbohydrates and decreasing the metabolic rate, almost guaranteeing weight gain.The obesity effort link has been well documented. Our thinking brain (neocortex) is disregarded, and the ends of our emotional brain are the ones that rule.

So to take control of our body, we would have to take control of our mind. What do you think? If such a pill were invented, would you take it?

If you liked this topic, don't miss our article on 10 myths about losing weight.

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