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Is Your Maternal Instinct Causing Weight Gain?

May 11, 2009 by Adria Ali Leave a Comment

 

     Men seem to lose weight faster  then women.  In the past, everyone just assumed that it was based on the ratio or muscle to fat.  Men simply, have more muscle mass then women ; therefor they burn up fat at a faster rate .  However new research suggests that it may not be purely based on physiology.  The maternal instinct of women to reproduce and provide food for their unborn child could be the cause of all this excess weight gain.

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New research on the brain suggests that women unconsciously have a tougher time resisting their favorite foods than men do.

“This gives us another piece to put into this puzzle,” said Dr. Gene-Jack Wang, the study’s author, who speculated that women may have more trouble saying no to food because they sometimes have to eat for two.

“Maybe evolution leads them to this because of their important mission to have a baby,” said Wang, a senior scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory and professor of psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York.

According to Wang, the new study aimed to understand why some people don’t stop eating when they’re full. Your body tells you that you’ve eaten enough by sending a signal to your brain from the gut, he explained, “but if you go to the buffet, sometimes you just cannot stop.”

This wasn’t a big problem throughout history because people rarely had a chance to eat more than they needed, Wang said. But modern society has changed that, he said, especially over the past 30 to 40 years as obesity has become much more common in the United States.

For the study, which appears in this week’s issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers asked 13 women and 10 men about their favorite foods. The participants said they liked a variety of dishes and desserts, including lasagna, pizza, brownies, ice cream and fried chicken.

Then, after they fasted for 20 hours, the researchers presented them with their favorite foods; the dishes were even warmed up, if appropriate, to make them more tempting. The men and women were allowed to smell and taste the food but not eat it. Then, in an experiment, they were told to try to inhibit their desire to eat the food.

Meanwhile, PET scans examined their brain activity.

The researchers found that certain areas of the brain became more active in both the men and women when they were tempted with food. The brain areas that lit up control emotions such as motivation.

Also, both men and women succeeded in making themselves feel less hungry by inhibiting their desire to eat the food. But the brain scans suggested that the women’s brains were still acting as if they were hungry (source).

 

     Great!  This article is basically telling us (women) that we are doomed to to carry excess weight!  On a lighter note, “knowledge is power,” meaning we can use this information to our benefit.  If you think you are still hungry after you had a huge meal and possibly dessert; think again.  It could just be your maternal instinct kicking in. 

Adria Ali

(CES,PES, CPT, BS)

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About Adria Ali

I am the author of this web page and I have been a personal trainer for over 13 years. I currently hold a Bachelors of Science in Kinesiology (exercise science), as well as all of the certifications from National Academy of Sports Medicine. I also have a background in sports training as well as internships in physical therapy and Occupational Therapy. I got into personal training to help people like my mom who struggled with her weight her whole life.


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