Study: Brain activity has a strong relationship with weight loss

The results of a recent study showed that weight loss does not depend only on medications and personal will, but is more related to how the brain responds to food.

The study, according to the journal Nature Metabolism, showed that the brain responds to nutrients differently in obese people, even after significant weight loss.

The researchers had injected the stomachs of 60 research participants with different solutions containing glucose, fat or water alone, and measured brain responses, hormonal levels in the blood, and the degrees of hunger reported by the participants.

The results revealed that the group of non-obese participants had appropriate activation of reward centers in the brain in response to nutrients, while the same regions were not activated in the obese participants.