Skipping dessert because you are on a diet? Contrary to popular beliefs, eating sweets may actually help you control eating and keep your weight down.
A new study by researchers from Georgia State University, Georgia Regents University and Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center found out that eating sweet foods causes the brain to form a memory of a meal, thus falling into the trap of sudden cravings may be controlled.
A London-based study concluded that forming memories of meals is essential to a healthy diet. These memories are specifically called episodic memories-which according to Marise Parent, professor in the Neuroscience Institute at Georgia State, can be used to control eating behaviour. Episodic memory is the memory people generate of autobiographical events that happened at a particular place and time. People make decisions such as 'I probably won't eat another serving. I had a big breakfast this morning.' Research found that these kinds of decisions are based on one's memory of what and when he or she ate.
