Foods that are both fatty and sweet can hijack the part of the brain that regulates food consumption
by Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times
Jun 18, 2018
3 minutes
It may have taken thousands of generations of hunting, gathering, farming and cooking to get here. But in the end, the genius of humankind has combined fats and carbohydrates to produce such crowning culinary glories as the doughnut, fettuccine Alfredo, nachos and chocolate cake with buttercream frosting.
It goes without saying that these delectables do not exist in nature. It turns out combinations of carbohydrates and fats generally do not exist in the landscape in which man
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