STUDY: Just Thinking About Food Can Make You Fat

Congratulations, you just gained 5 pounds.
Dieters beware: Japanese researchers have found that simply thinking about eating something sweet could cause you to store fat.

Sure, the study was done on mice, but they believe it applies to humans, too.

Mark Febbraio, professor of cell biology at the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, had this to say about the findings:

"What this paper is suggesting is that you have an anticipatory response in skeletal muscle to start taking up glucose to use for energy just by thinking about it."

Oddly, just thinking about this study made me fat.