Thinking makes us pig out


	Thinking makes us pig out

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d846e9a6-cb38-45ea-a4ec-7ebca4a78bcb/A73667FB-E9DD-42D7-9039-BE0A1742C2B1/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080904/sc_livescience/thinkingmakesuspigout" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080904/sc_livescience/thinkingmakesuspigout" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080904/sc_livescience/thinkingmakesuspigout"><P>
Food for thought: Intellectual activities make people eat more than
when just resting, according to a study that sheds new light on
brain food.
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This finding might also help explain the obesity epidemic of an increasingly sedentary society in which people <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/livescience/sc_livescience/storytext/thinkingmakesuspigout/28954774/SIG=121tgjt3m/*http://www.livescience.com/health/080815-top5-brain-health.html"><SPAN id="lw_1220555648_0" class="yshortcuts">still have to think</SPAN></A> now and then.
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The scientists had determined beforehand that the thinking sessions consumed only three <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/livescience/sc_livescience/storytext/thinkingmakesuspigout/28954774/SIG=121kbe4si/*http://www.livescience.com/health/080708-fountain-of-youth.html"><SPAN id="lw_1220555648_1" class="yshortcuts">calories</SPAN></A> more than resting. After the sessions, the participants were invited to eat as much as they pleased.
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The students who had done the computer tests downed 253 more
calories, or 29.4 percent more than the couch potatoes. Those who had
summarized a text consumed 203 more calories than the resting group.
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Blood samples taken before, during, and after revealed that
intellectual work causes much bigger fluctuations in <SPAN id="lw_1220555648_2" class="yshortcuts">glucose levels</SPAN>
than rest periods, perhaps owing to the stress of thinking.
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