A small, mindful dessert can trigger more intense brain activity and stickier memories than a rigid, all‑or‑nothing sugar ban. When attention narrows to flavor, texture, and aroma, sensory cortex, hippocampus, and reward circuits fire in tight synchrony, encoding the moment as a rich, high‑resolution pattern your brain is primed to keep.Under strict suppression, the prefrontal cortex spends energy...More