The Pleasure of Eating | Imperial Festival 2017
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Channel: Imperial College London · 2017 · Science & Technology
Dr Tony Goldstone Recent studies have confirmed that targeting hormones that make us feel full after eating reduces appetite and food craving. Obesity expert Tony Goldstone will discuss the science behind the pleasure of eating and the possibility of designing drugs to help people with obesity to lose weight by interfering with these ‘reward’ mechanisms in the brain. They might also help people give up smoking, and drinking alcohol.
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