NPR: Linkfest: Brain's 'Sixth Sense' for Calories

Linkfest: Brain's 'Sixth Sense' for Calories

Scientist Ivan de Araujo and his colleagues recently published a study that shows the brain can sense the calories in food, independent of how things taste. This "sixth sense" machinery could ultimately help researchers understand what causes obesity.

Questions raised by the discovery of the brain's calorie-sensing system "are extremely important to understanding the pathogenesis and sociology of human obesity," wrote Zane Andrews and Tamas Horvath in a preview of the Araujo's study.

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6:36 AM ET | 03-28-2008 | permalink

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