The sight of delicious food is a diet killer

What many have long suspected, now confirmed by a study: who is on a diet should be spared the sight of goodies.

Mountains of cakes, smoked sausage specialties, Pickles: Who holds diet should be any better pictures with delicious look at food. Here is what the recommendation of dieticians   , if they are the results of a study by the Max-Planck-Institute for   Psychiatry in Munich into account. The scientists have   found that the proportion of in the blood rises when people   look at pictures of appetizing foods.

For the study, she and her colleagues, eight young, healthy and   normal-weight men examined two long mornings, explains Petra   Schüssler from the Max-Planck-Institute. The men had on both days   breakfast and a half hour later - "in a phase where   it is neither hungry nor full "- images viewed. On the first day   had it been neutral pictures, pictures on the second day of delicious food.   "On the second day, we have detected an increase in ghrelin in the blood."

The researchers conclude that the production of visual stimuli   Stimulating hormone. "Obviously there is a message signal from the brain   the gastro-intestinal tract, "says Schüssler. Statistically, the study was   with only eight subjects, of course, vulnerable. To prove that   appetizing pictures will actually lead to people eating more,   it would require a second study. After the test images "would be the   Subjects set before eating and see if they actually eat more.”