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January, 19, 2009 AP News: Study: Women Less Able to Suppress Hunger than Men.

“Faced with their favorite foods, women are less able than men to suppress their hunger, a discovery that may help explain the higher obesity rate for females, a new study suggests. Researchers trying to understand the brain's mechanisms for controlling food intake were surprised at the difference between the sexes in brain response. Gene-Jack Wang of Brookhaven National Laboratory… performed brain scans on 13 women and 10 men, to determine how their brains responded to the sight of their favorite foods.

They report their findings in January 19, 2009 edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that woman had much more of a difficulty suppressing their hunger then man. "There is something going on in the female," Wang said in a telephone interview, "the signal is so much different."

Other reasons may be the fact that woman have much more food exposure them men including shopping, preparing and serving food. Men also have a greater metabolism than women and may be a little more active in their daily jobs.

It adds up to greater problems with weight control in women than men. It's not fair!

http://www.pnas.org/site/misc/highlights.shtml