In a 2015 study published online in the journal Appetite, researchers found that women's brains respond more to romantic cues on a full stomach than on an empty one. The study explored brain circuitry in hungry versus satiated states among women who were past dieters and those who had never dieted.⁠ ⁠ "We found that young women both with and without a history of dieting had greater brain activation in response to romantic pictures in reward-related neural regions after having eaten than when hungry," said Alice Ely, Ph.D., who completed the research while pursuing a doctoral degree at Drexel, and is now a postdoctoral research fellow at the Eating Disorders Center for Treatment and Research, part of the UC San Diego School of Medicine.⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ #romance #romantic #breakfastinbed #bedandbreakfast #breakfast #fullstomach #science #biology