Ladies, here's solid proof why you must be wined and dined.
There's about 546 reasons why food is everything, and now scientists have found another big benefit to keeping a woman well-fed. (Listen up, gentlemen!)
In a study recently published by the journal Appetite, researchers found that there was a very close correlation between a woman's appetite and romantic desire.
Researchers looked at the brain's reaction to hunger in 20 healthy, young women. They were asked not to eat for eight hours before the experiment. First, the participants were shown romantic images, such as people holding hands, while their brain's activity was scanned. The women were then fed a liquid meal-replacement drink. Afterwards, they were asked to look at the same romantic images again, now with a full stomach, as their brains were scanned once more.
The findings showed that the women were much more open to romance after they were satiated, based on the activation levels in the brain scans. In other words, a woman is more likely to, ahem, get in the mood after she enjoys a good meal.
"They were more responsive to romantic cues,"author Alice Ely, now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Diego told Time.com."Instead of being anxious and annoyed and irritable when you're hungry…once we're sated, then we can get on to better things."
The study's authors note, though, that more research needs to be done on the subject."It's all very speculative, but it's still very interesting and a sort of unexpected finding," said Ely.
Still, you now have the best excuse ever for your partner to take you out to dinner or cook you an amazing dish: science!
via Time.com