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Can We Get Our Brain to Get About That Sugary Taste?
CNN's John Sutter looks at the ways in which our eating habits are shaped. Can we, through habit, get our brain to get about that sugary taste? This is really cool stuff that psychologists do. One of my favorite scientist in hook dana small was a self professed chocoholic. She could slide people into a scanner machine and put a square of lint milk chocolate on their tongue,. It would melt on its own, oozing over the tongue, sending those signals of fat and sweetness as it went from ecstasy to puke.