A new study in The Journal of Clinical Investigation has found that a certain fat found in foods like ice cream, burgers, and cheese can trick your brain into telling your body to continue eating more than you should. This can last p to three days !!! The brain sends out messages to your body’s cells that tell them to ignore the usual signals from the appetite hormones leptin and insulin that would normally tell you when to stop eating.
The researchers from UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, where able to pinpoint a specific type of fat called palmitic acid that changes your brain chemistry quickly and leads to overeating. It is found in things like butter, milk, cheese, and beef. This could help to explain why we tend to overeat when we have things like burgers, pizza, tacos, fried chicken and ice cream.