Men can resist food temptations better than women, a recent study shows.Brain scans on 13 women and 10 men, who had fasted overnight, showed the differences in how the brains of men and women responded to the sight of their favorite foods.
"There is something going on in the female," Gene-Jack Wang, lead researcher in the study, said. "The signal is so much different.... Even though the women said they were less hungry when trying to inhibit their response to the food, their brains were still firing away in the regions that control the drive to eat."
While American men and women are approximately equally classified overweight (65.1 million men vs. 64.5 million women), far more women than men are considered obese (34.7 million women vs. 26.6 million men).
These stats are from 2001 — more recent statistics from the National Center for Health Statistics show that more than 72 million American adults are obese. That number is up more than 10 million in the past five years!
Amazing. From 2001 to 2005, more than 10 million American adults went from "merely" overweight to OBESE!
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