Dessert stomach is real, according to a new study – News + Articles

Remember when you were a kid, and you tried to convince your parents that you were “full from dinner” but you still had a room for dessert? Well, it turns out that dessert stomach is actually a real thing, at least according to a recent study.

When I was travelling in the United States during my early 20s, one of my hosts used to say that you couldn’t possibly be too full for sweets after dinner, because dessert just “fills in the gaps” – a notion which always made a giggle. And while “filling in the gaps” might be a liiiiittle bit of a stretch, it turns out that the notion of a dinner…