Why we love beer and coffee, and some coffee can only enjoy with sugar

The researcher Marilyn Cornelis of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine is particularly interested in coffee. She explores the genetic basis of the different tastes, and coffee seems to be particularly suited to this.

While for some, a day without a bitter roasted flavor on the tongue is a lost day, the Others get the coffee at the most in a milk and sugar watered-down variant.

Less taste, more Psyche!

The love of or aversion to bitter drinks has surprising to do little with the taste of the drinks. The result is their new study has surprised even Cornelis and her colleagues: "The genes are our preferences as a basis, have something to tun&quot with the psychoactive substances these drinks to;, the Physician says. "People like the way of coffee and beer, let you feel." The sounds again now, but so surprising.

The study makes it clear, the fundamental importance of the reward system in the selection of our favourite drinks, games, Cornelis. The variant of the so-called FTO gene seems to play a special role.

Gained fame of this Gen a few years ago, researchers found that a specific gene variant, obesity favors. Cornelis and her colleagues discovered that people who prefer Cola and other sweet drinks, carriers of another variant of the FTO gene.

The FTO Gene remains a mystery

Paradoxically, it is the variant that recently for a (warning!) less obesity was made of risk responsible. Moment! Would not tend to be people who take a lot of sugary drinks, are also more likely to morbid Obesity?

"We don’t know how exactly the Gene with the propensity to obesity zusammenhängt", Cornelis says. They called the Gene "mysteriös". It is likely that the FTO-Gene influence on the behavior and thus also on the weight control of people.

However, it is known that too much sugar is bad for the health. And the alcohol consumption is made for more than 200 diseases, and for more than six percent of all deaths worldwide.

When the personal beverage preferences have less to do with taste, rather than with psychological satisfaction, then the study, the researcher Marilyn Cornelis, provides a possible explanation for why eating habits have to change so damn hard.

Author: Julia Vergin