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Food is the way to the soul. Or is it the eyes?


A new study released today found that the pleasure derived from eating food may be seen in the eyes – at least that’s what they found by using electroretinography to measure dopamine in the retina. Read more about the study from Drexel University’s department of nutrition sciences in Philadelphia here.
 
No wonder there are over 32 million photos of #food on Instagram. And just think what might happen if all of those users fired up their dopamine by taking a bite of their food before clicking the shutter – could reward-motivated behavior, like eating at Bouchon in Napa, actually make mobile photography and editing skills better?

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