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Health Check: does my brain really freeze when I eat ice cream?

  • Written by Yossi Rathner, Lecturer in Human Physiology, Swinburne University of Technology
imageLittle does this woman know what happens to her brain when she licks the ice cream.from www.shutterstock.com

It’s a long, hot summer’s day and you’re looking forward to an ice cream. But within seconds of your first bite, you feel a headache coming on: a brain freeze. What’s going on?

Your brain isn’t literally...

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