BLAME your sweet tooth on your liver! It seems the chocolate cravings some of us have badly could be affected by a liver hormone designated FGF21.
Researchers at the University of Copenhagen did a study with 6,500 Danish individuals and found that people with particular variants of the FGF21 gene were 20% more likely to have an insatiable sweet tooth.
They said the liver could also secrete other hormones that guide food choices broadly.
The team want to do a much larger study of humans to gather more info about the relationship between FGF21 variants and sugar cravings.
BEER may be a better pain killer than paracetamol, according to a new British study published in The Journal of Pain this week.
Researchers from Greenwich University made the groundbreaking discovery that the more beer people drank, the less pain they felt.
Four hundred volunteers took part in 18 different drinking experiments, with the study concluding that a blood alcohol level of .08 reduced pain by as much as 25%.
The authors said the effect of beer was similar to that of codeine, but also stressed that long term use of alcohol as an analgesic was likely to cause more harm than good.
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