A new exciting research has found that a woman is more responsive to romantic gestures when her stomach is full in comparison to an empty stomach. The researchers even claimed that keeping a woman’s stomach full is as seductive as whispering romantic lines in her ear.

In the research, the scientists looked at women having a history of dieting and those who did not go on diet. The researchers came to know that the former group showed increased reward circuitry under a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machine they have stuffed their stomachs with food.

Study’s lead researcher Alice Ely from UC San Diego School of Medicine's Eating Disorders Center for Treatment and Research said they studied how female brain responded to romantic cues while the women were in both a ‘fasted and fed state’.

The researchers noted that women who had eaten before being exposed to certain romantic cues witnessed a greater activation of the brain’s areas that responded to ‘perception and goal-directed behavior’.

The study is a good way to know how food and romance can intersect human brains. “This data suggests that eating may prime or sensitize young women to rewards beyond food. It also supports a shared neurocircuitry for food and sex”, said the study researchers.

The study supported by MRI scanning showed women taking dieting seriously have different brain activity in certain parts of brain in comparison to those who did not.