I used to joke that I could put on weight by just sitting beside someone who was eating a Mars Bar. Now, researchers tell me that it was no joke."Japanese researchers have found that simply thinking about eating something sweet could cause you to store fat.They have conducted tests in mice and believe the findings will probably apply to humans too.
A professor of cell biology at the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Mark Febbraio, has been reviewing the paper by a group of researchers at the National Institute for Physiological Sciences in Japan.
"What this paper is suggesting is that you have an anticipatory response in skeletal muscle to start taking up glucose to use for energy just by thinking about it," he said."
- ABC News.
Oh, misery!
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do you think if I think long and hard about NOT eating Mars bars I'd lose the weight I might have gained?
ReplyDeleteThis being true (and I ain't saying it is) then just think about lil critters inside you eating your fat.
ReplyDeleteMice also live in tiny holes and gnaw on wires. This may apply to humans too.
ReplyDeleteThen I am positive I'll lose weight and keep slim by just thinking of how my fat cells will ignore all the Mars bars that went in my system..and kept shrinking.
ReplyDeleteGood grief. The suicide rate is going to go up.
ReplyDeleteWell, that explains a crapload!!
ReplyDeleteOh no! I hope this is only true of mice...
ReplyDeletewhat happens if you eat the Mars bar without thinking? It just vanishes?
ReplyDeleteI've had it happen, don't laugh! I used to think, 'what a waste!' Now maybe I should amend that to "thank heavens!"
Mars bars have actually got smaller these days (a sign of growing old, I'm afraid).
ReplyDeleteThey are my standby on long motorcycle rides - a bar in my pocket, gnawed on occasionally, suffices between bakeries.
If one night a Mars Bar fell from a display stand in a deserted shop and no-one heard it . . .
ReplyDeletenow ..even thinking about food is sin??? damn
ReplyDeletei did see that in the news the other day. that's why i've been thinking mostly of artichokes most of the time.
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