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Potato chips. Does the mere mention of that salty snack send you searching for a vending machine?

Well, you can blame the one-two punch of fat and carbohydrates.

Because a new study finds that foods high in both carbs and fats tickle the brain's reward circuits,

more so than snacks that showcase

just one or the other. The findings are served up in the journal, Cell Metabolism.

The energetic properties of foods play an important role in determining their value.

Dana Small, professor of psychiatry at Yale University's School of Medicine.

The big players, calorically speaking, are fats and sugars. And the reason we

desire them is because they activate our neural reward system, flooding those brain regions

with the neurotransmitter dopamine. But studies show that fats and sugars trigger those

rewarding bursts of dopamine in different ways. This really got us thinking.

Modern processed foods like french fries, donuts, hamburgers, and even yogurts,

contain high levels of fat and carbohydrate.

In contrast, foods high in fat and carbohydrate are very rare if they ever existed at all in the natural food environment.

So we wondered if fat and carbohydrate

both released dopamine, might it be the case that their simultaneous consumption produces

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