Almost every person has come across a rather surprising phenomenon: having opened a pack of chips and having tasted a couple of things, he could no longer stop and ate the whole pack to the end.. American scientists tried to figure out what is the reason for this phenomenon..

Researchers have long noticed that there are some foods that make people want to eat them until the supply runs out.. Among the most famous, first of all, we can name the same chips, or seeds.

The study of this phenomenon was carried out by German scientists from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, who, based on the results of the study, prepared a report presented at the annual 245th conference of the American Society of Chemists. The study consisted in the fact that its authors gave experimental rodents different foods that had the same calorie content.. In addition, the scientists also gave the rats chips.. After that, using MRI, German experts studied the activity of the brain of rodents..

As it turned out, while eating chips, the pleasure centers of the brain of rats became more active than when they ate other food.. At the same time, while the rats were eating chips, they also activated other centers that are responsible for various addictions, including drug addiction.. After eating the chips, the rats began to play and run more briskly, and this phenomenon was caused precisely by the activation of the mentioned centers.

You can even say that after eating the chips, the rats fell into a certain state of euphoria, which in humans is also accompanied by hyperactivity..

The scientists also noticed that after some time, the rats that had eaten the chips had a stage of arousal that gave way to lethargy and apathy.. That is, there were all the signs of an abstinence syndrome.. It should also be noted that in those rats that ate normal food, no such phenomena were observed..

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