The answers to these questions are obvious. Although I know these foods are high in fat and easy to get fat, I just like them.
It turns out that the abstract feeling of "like" comes from a substance called "dopamine" secreted by the hypothalamus, which will directly affect the ups and downs of emotions. Too much dopamine secretion will make you feel happy, while too little dopamine secretion will make you unhappy and even depressed.
Why do I get fat? Why do I like to eat these high-fat and high-sugar foods? It's also dopamine!
Dopamine can be increased, and it can be reduced after eating a large piece of fried chicken chops and a large piece of pizza. At this time, your dopamine secretion will be 50%, but there is no upper limit for dopamine secretion. For example, when taking drugs, the dopamine secretion is 350%, and the "ice" in drugs will make dopamine secretion 1200%!
Friendly reminder: even so, don't touch drugs, cocaine and ice!
Dopamine is like a reward mechanism in the brain. When it rises, our mood will fluctuate, we will feel uncomfortable and even depressed, which is why we like high-fat and high-sugar food and drug addiction. Because my heart is cold, but after it is cold, I have to pay the price.
Threshold effect of dopamine
You will feel happy when dopamine rises, but if you want to experience the same happiness again, the dopamine threshold will come into play. The same experience for the second time will only make you happy 80%. It is also a kind of candy. The dopamine secretion you experience is different every time, and it is less every time. Only by eating more candy every time can you experience the first happiness. The inevitable result of this behavior is obesity.
Dopamine itself is not right or wrong. At best, it is a "poisonous snake"-let Adam and Eve steal the forbidden fruit. The poisonous snake has no fault, but the fruit is poisonous.
The more dopamine we secrete, the happier we are. You will be happy to eat foods that are high in fat and sugar, but when they become fat, you should reduce dopamine. The pain caused by sadness decides to continue to overeat next time, which is obviously a vicious circle.
Because of unhappiness, depression and sadness, people who are lovelorn are prone to overeating, and people who have been dieting for a long time are also prone to overeating, because such behavior will make you secrete more dopamine and be happier. You remember this feeling, so you want to keep feeling it. This is the secret of dopamine and weight loss.