Women who like sweets are more in tune with their bodies and better able to tell when they feel full, a new study suggests.
Psychologists from the University of Sussex performed a series of tests on 64 women, who were either ‘sweet likers’ or ‘sweet dislikers’.
The team found the sweet likers had enhanced ‘interoceptive’ abilities – in other words, they better perceived the internal state of their body – and were the ‘more mindful and intuitive eaters’.