Your brain has a free calorie counter


Researchers found that we have the ability to determine if the food we like is high in calories. - Shutterstock

A study seeks to determine how people's awareness of caloric content influenced the brain areas known to be implicated in evaluating food options. 

A neuroimaging study says the brain has a natural affinity for evaluating foods based on their caloric density, containing a library of nutritional information that may be richer than that of your wearable tracker’s software platform.

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