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According to mid-day.com, the myth that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach seems to ring true. A study has shown that men, who are believed to have a one-track mind, actually think more about food and sleep than they do about sex.

The research also found that contrary to popular

belief, men do not think about sex every seven

seconds, and that in reality, it is more like once

every waking hour. Professor Terri Fisher, a psychologist at the Ohio State University in the U.S.

carried out the study on 163 students, both male and female. They were asked to carry around a chart and mark it every time they thought about

sex, food or sleep. It was found the numbers varied widely, as one student recorded only one sexual thought a day, and another male wrote down 388 in 24 hours but on average, men thought about food and sleep more often than they thought about sex, but they thought about all three more often than women did. Fisher stated that men are more aware of need-related states such as being hungry or tired or sexually aroused, and focus on those.

She added that they are also better at detecting these states in themselves than women and more willing to express their thoughts. She added that even the student who thought about sex 388 times in a day was only thinking about it every 158 seconds, far fewer than the every seven second that myth suggested.

When people hear about some of these differences, I think sometimes they don't question it because it fits the stereotypes we have of men and women.

Fisher said.When you stop and take a closer look at the origins of some of these suspected differences, they sometimes have no empirical support, she explained.

Behavioural Psychologist Jo Hemmings, author of

How To Have Great Sex, explains why men are so

preoccupied with their stomachs.There tend to be more trigger mechanisms to thinking about food.

Hemming s said. The sights and smells associated with eating, as well as simple hunger or thirst,tend to be more common in everyday life than the trigger mechanism for thinking about sex, so inescapably we think more about it, she added. So before you want to seduce your man make sure he is well fed and well rested!

LIMON