Teens with bigger brains at eating disorder risk

Teens with bigger brains at eating disorder risk

    Anew research has claimed that teens having bigger brains are more prone to suffer from anorexia nervosa. According to a study, girls with anorexia nervosa had a larger insula, a part of the brain active when we taste food, and a larger orbitofrontal cortex, a part of the brain that tells a person when to stop eating. The researchers report that the bigger brain may be the reason people with anorexia are able to starve themselves. The study said that while eating disorders are often triggered by the environment, there are most likely biological mechanisms that have to come together for an individual to develop an eating disorder such as anorexia nervosa.