Here\'s Why Science Says You Stuff Pizza and Fries in Your Face When You Get the \'Drunchies\'

Ah the Drunchies… or the drunk munchies for the uninitiated.????VO-fried food/drinking??It’s when you get cravings to eat garbage after a night of treating your body like garbage.????VO-penn state/alcohol/ pizza/fries??But a new study from Penn State University’s College of Medicine thinks they may have found a scientific answer as to why you’re always reaching for french fries and pizza after a night of drinking.????VO-alcohol??Their research, recently presented at the annual meeting of the American Physiological Society, ????VO-mice/normal food/junk food??Found that when mices’ eating habits were set to mimic binge eating behavior, or eating normal foods most of the time and high-fat foods only once a week- ????VO-mice eating??When mice had the opportunity to eat high fat foods, they ate as much as they could.????VO-alcohol/sleeping mice??And when binge-diet mice were given alcohol, they drank more of that than the other groups of mice who were on different diets, as well.????VO-eating kebab??Which could mean that binge-eating and drinking could be related.????VO-brain-eat-overlay??And this, coupled with a study from 2017 which found that alcohol activates the urge to eat, similar to hunger itself-????VO-taco bell??We may finally have an explanation for the whole taco bell fourth meal phenomenon.

????VO-slice shop sign/ eat pizza??Which is all well and good, but the fact that the slice shop around the corner is the only place open near me after midnight, may shed some light on the situation as well.????