{"id":283620,"date":"2025-03-11T12:04:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T11:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tapasmagazine.es\/por-que-estamos-programados-para-querer-siempre-postre\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T12:14:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T11:14:16","slug":"why-we-are-programmed-to-always-want-dessert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tapasmagazine.es\/en\/why-we-are-programmed-to-always-want-dessert\/","title":{"rendered":"Why we are programmed to always want dessert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tapasmagazine.es\/en\/why-we-are-programmed-to-always-want-dessert\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a> to read the Spanish version<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dessert<\/strong> is unforgivable. At least for many of us, despite having had our fill or even overindulged. It turns out that this is no accident, and that science supports the effect of consuming sugar when we are already full.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research in Cologne, Germany, published a report in the journal Science that examined how sugar affects us once we have \u2018eaten\u2019. They found that hypothalamic pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) neurons in the hypothalamus, the part of the brain that regulates our hormones and creates feelings of hunger, thirst, sleepiness and satiety after eating, are the main culprits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tapasmagazine.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/postres-credic-grolet-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-171367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tapasmagazine.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/postres-credic-grolet-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tapasmagazine.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/postres-credic-grolet-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tapasmagazine.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/postres-credic-grolet-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tapasmagazine.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/postres-credic-grolet-1000x563.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.tapasmagazine.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/postres-credic-grolet-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.tapasmagazine.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/postres-credic-grolet.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018We found that<strong> POMC neurons<\/strong> not only promote satiety under feeding conditions, but concomitantly activate the appetite for sugar, which drives overconsumption,\u2019 the researchers explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The same nerve cells that make us feel satiated also trigger our cravings for sweets afterwards. In fact, they observed that even the \u2018mere perception\u2019 of eating sweets releases the \u2018opioid \u00df-endorphin, which makes evolutionary sense because sugar provides quick energy\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click here to read the Spanish version. Dessert is unforgivable. At least for many of us, despite having had our fill or even overindulged. It turns out that this is no accident, and that science supports the effect of consuming sugar when we are already full. 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