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“You've heard that romance starts in the kitchen and not in the bedroom. Well, researchers at Drexel University finally have the science to support that saying -- but not the way you might think.” In the article, Stomach is the way to a woman’s heart, too, it was revealed that studies show that women’s brains responds more to romantic signals on a full stomach than on an empty one. The most recent finding, was based on a small pilot study, grew from Ely and her Drexel colleagues’ earlier work, which investigated how the brain changes in response to food signals. The researchers specifically, looked at whether the brain’s reward to food differed significantly in women at risk for future obesity versus those who never dieted. "In the fed state,

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