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Women, Weaker Sex In Hunger Control?

Filed in archive Diet and Food , Mind Games , Weight on January 23, 2009

A brain imaging study suggests that men are better able to resist hunger than women. Thereby suggesting why women are more prone to emotional eating and are less likely to lose weight when dieting.

Men's brain are more able to manage hunger control compared to women, and so women are the weaker sex in this department. Not because men are genetically special but because their brain are made up to resist hunger more than women.

According to study leader Gene-Jack Wang, MD:

"Women have a much stronger reaction to food, such that whether they try to inhibit their desire or not, they have stronger signal [in the part of the brain that controls hunger perception and desire to eat]."


Does the above finding suggests that women are more likely to stay obese than men when both go on a diet? Maybe. But I guess women just gotta have to work harder in order to resist the call of hunger. What do you think?



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