Termed by some people as “dessert stomach”; is a phenomenon experienced by every human being, where there is always a room for best dessert in one’s belly no matter how full it is. Here is a scientific description, that is trying to explain this wonder.
Research shows that the sugar found in sweet food such as desserts, barley and sesame seed triggers a reflex which causes the stomach to expand. This fact can be affirmed by the majority. After a big portion of a heavy meal (like turkey, mashed potatoes with gravy, Waldorf salad and cranberry juice), then you will be bursting with fullness. You are so sated that there was even leftover food on your plate. However; when desserts (like plum pudding or panna cotta) are served right at your table, incredibly there is an instant room for these too.
There has a physiological explanation for this marvelous dessert phenomenon. In the up-to-date issue or copy of “The Journal of the Norweigian Medical Association”; senior or head researcher Arnold Berstad with his associate or assistant physician Jørgen Valeur (from Lovisenberg Diakonale Hospital), has proven that sweet foods like dessert motivates a reaction or reflex expands or increases the stomach. They claim that “If you ingest dessert after you are actually having a satisfied feeling, you are deceiving your usual sensation of being full”.
Stomach is flexible
The stomach is indeed a flexible or a supple organ. Every time you consume a huge amount of meal; the walls of the upper sector of the stomach relax, and make extra room or space for more food.
The pressure of weight in the stomach is nearly related to how full you are feeling, which in turn is associated how the stomach has stretched, for the food to be tackled. It shows that there are three elements worked together in stimulating a relaxing reflex, says Berstad.
First, there is an effect in the smell and appearance of the food as the well the swallowing and chewing process. Second, there is a necessary impact of the food’s pressure against the belly. Lastly, duodenum “palates” the food components.
The relaxing with sugar
According to Berstad, the brainstem receives all the information through specific nerves. A message is resent from the central of the brainstem, and directs the muscle relaxation in the wall of the stomach.
And, same thing with dessert; the Glucose (also called as sugar) will motivate this relaxation reaction.
It is where the stomach’s pressure is decreased and reduces the “full” sensation or feeling. The researchers have written in the medical journal, a sweet dessert permits the stomach to make room or space for more food. For the researchers, the optimum consumption of dessert is a question of control.
Less full, for just a taste
If you desire to feel like little less full right after a big meal, you should control your ingestion of desserts. This will not divide your gut, and also a small amount of sugar will stimulate the expansion of dessert.
To balance the sugar restraining and too much of many good things, is really difficult to reach. Because, a single bite of something sweet will give you a more relaxing feeling than simply passing it by, especially for Chinese desserts!
The concern here, is that you don’t find it so hard to stop eating some desserts. According to Berstad; the brakes of the consumption of carbohydrate are lower down (at the end part of the small intestine), for about 5 meters.
Now, you have an idea why you cannot simply say “No” to desserts.
