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Tuesday 26 Jan 2016 - 14:06 Makkah mean time-16-4-1437
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Washington, (IINA) - As well as cutting how much food the body absorbs, weight-loss surgery reduces sugar cravings, say U.S. researchers, Mail Online health news reported.
The researchers compared the brain activity in mice while they were offered sugary food - some of the mice had had bypass surgery, a technique used in obese patients to reduce stomach size and reroute food to the intestine to prevent it being absorbed.
The normal mice ate the food even if they'd just had a meal; the surgery mice didn't touch it scans showed that their brains didn't release the chemical dopamine when looking at food, which would normally drive rewarding behaviour and make them eat.
The researchers say this finding could help develop drugs that interfere with brain signaling in the same way to reduce sugar cravings in obese patients without surgery.
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