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Women respond romance better with a full stomach

        There is saying that "romance starts in the kitchen and not in the bedroom".  Alice Ely and their team from Drexel  University, Philadelphia tried to find the fact behind the saying.  They found that women's brains respond more to romantic cues on a full stomach than an empty one. They explored brain circuitry in hungry versus satiated states among women who were past-dieters and those who had never dieted. Their study data suggest that eating may prime or sensitize young women to rewards beyond food. It also supports a shared neurocircuitry for food and sex. They concluded that women are more responsive when fed.

The research was published in the journal Appetite in Volume 95 at page 123.

Study material can be found from  Drexel News Blog.