KISS away your obsession to lose weight (Anorexia)!

There are no drugs to treat the life-threatening disorder, whose sufferers try to be as thin as possible by drastically limiting food and undertaking extreme exercise. In severe cases, counselling is often of little benefit because the brain is so undernourished. British and South Korean scientists tested oxytocin, which is also released during sex, childbirth and  breastfeeding.

Anorexics who took the chemical focused less on photos of food and paid less attention than before to images of flabby thighs or stomachs. Dubbed the 'love hormone' or the 'cuddle chemical', oxytocin also changed anorexic patients' responses to images of angry and disgusted faces, according to one piece of research.