A recent study has shown that men control hunger better than women do, which goes a long way toward explaining why women are more likely to eat for emotional reasons, and why men always seem to drop weight more easily when they diet.

“Women have a much stronger reaction to food, such that whether they try to inhibit their desire or not, they have stronger signal [in the part of the brain that controls hunger perception and desire to eat],” study leader Gene-Jack Wang, MD explains.

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