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posted by martyb on Sunday December 18 2016, @08:46AM   Printer-friendly
from the Who-ever-binged-on-BAD-tasting-food? dept.

Does eating good-tasting food make you gain weight? Despite the common perception that good-tasting food is unhealthy and causes obesity, new research from the Monell Center using a mouse model suggests that desirable taste in and of itself does not lead to weight gain.

"Most people think that good-tasting food causes obesity, but that is not the case. Good taste determines what we choose to eat, but not how much we eat over the long-term," said study senior author Michael Tordoff, PhD, a physiological psychologist at Monell.

Researchers who study obesity have long known that laboratory rodents fed a variety of tasty human foods, such as chocolate chip cookies, potato chips and sweetened condensed milk, avidly overeat the good-tasting foods and become obese.

These studies have provided support for the common belief that tasty food promotes overeating and ensuing weight gain. However, because no study had separated the positive sensory qualities of the appetizing foods from their high sugar and fat content, it was impossible to know if the taste was actually driving the overeating.

The French live by the theory of eating smaller portions of richer, better-tasting food.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 18 2016, @08:51AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 18 2016, @08:51AM (#442636)

    I have not in my 40+ years heard anyone ever say that taste makes you fat nor suggest that this makes any sort of common sense.

    I have nothing more to say than this.

  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 18 2016, @09:09AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 18 2016, @09:09AM (#442637)

    All I've heard is that good-tasting foods tend to be unhealthy, not that the good taste itself is what makes it unhealthy.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 18 2016, @09:11AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 18 2016, @09:11AM (#442638)

      Fat and salt taste great, more filling. Try the sugar coated protein bars.

      • (Score: 1) by anubi on Sunday December 18 2016, @09:20AM

        by anubi (2828) on Sunday December 18 2016, @09:20AM (#442639) Journal

        Any surprises here?

        When one eats out of hunger, one eats only enough to make the pain go away. This is not fun. Its survival. And there are a lot of things we would rather be doing than eating.

        When one eats for pleasure... bingo! You are not doing this to survive. Its fun! Eat some more! Eat way way way too much!

        Plug yourself up. Enjoy!

        ( Holding hand up... guilty as charged... just like many more of us who eat a lot of stuff we shouldn't just because the damned thing is so tasty. )

        McDonald's - number one on my list.

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        "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
        • (Score: 3, Insightful) by BsAtHome on Sunday December 18 2016, @09:42AM

          by BsAtHome (889) on Sunday December 18 2016, @09:42AM (#442641)

          Are you serious? McD's stuff tastes awful. They try to make it tasty, but that is of very short duration (and the taste seems to differs from country to country). If hungry, the first bite seems to work. The second bite is hard and the third bite is, well, lets not get into that. I stopped going there a very very long time ago.

          Once your tastebuds are destroyed, then I'd guess you would be able to eat that stuff. However, if you know what the natural taste of food is, then it is simply slime and dirt.

          • (Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Sunday December 18 2016, @10:05AM

            by dyingtolive (952) on Sunday December 18 2016, @10:05AM (#442646)

            I can't speak for OP, but their breakfast in particular is what entices me. Particularly after a hangover.

            Their regular food line is something I could do without ever eating again. I was more okay with their stuff back when they were flirting with actual chicken in their food, like the snack wraps and stuff. I could get a couple of those with grilled chicken and no dressing and that'd tide me over for a meal without feeling disgusting. Anything else on the list was just gross though.

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            • (Score: 1) by anubi on Sunday December 18 2016, @10:29AM

              by anubi (2828) on Sunday December 18 2016, @10:29AM (#442651) Journal

              I blame the fries in particular. The sodas are quite strong and not chintzy on the syrup. However, the shakes go down like sugary foam, then about five minutes of misery before the thing erupts back up the same chute it came down, along with the acid that failed to break it down.

              They used to have the cheap burgers I thought were tasty, but they eventually did away with them.

              They had some premium burgers I liked, but no more so than other eateries' burgers.

              Never was really enamored with Big Mac's. Preferred the Quarter Pounders and a salad... then put the salad in the burger at the table.

              I could not tell any difference between their chicken nuggets or the nuggets I got out of a bag from the dollar store and nuked.... except the price.

              The fish sandwiches were pretty good twenty years ago... but the latest incarnations are sure skimpy on the fish. They seem mostly fishy greasebread.

              Its those damned fries. McDonald's has that one down pat. Addicting as hell to me. And I know better than eat 'em.

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              "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
              • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 18 2016, @01:52PM

                by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 18 2016, @01:52PM (#442677)

                "Its those damned fries. McDonald's has that one down pat. Addicting as hell to me. And I know better than eat 'em."

                Oh man, McD's fries... those things suck ass. I'm lazy as hell, and I'd rather go to the supermarket, buy potatoes, and make 'em myself, than try eating those disgusting things again.

              • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Sunday December 18 2016, @02:09PM

                by Phoenix666 (552) on Sunday December 18 2016, @02:09PM (#442681) Journal

                I used to love McDonald's. Never cared for the McFish, but everything else I could eat heaps of. Sometime in the last 15 years they substituted flavored fillers for real ingredients. 3 minutes after eating their food you feel sick.

                It can't be a coincidence that Five Guys and BareBurger have successfully rushed in to fill the gap. People like the format still, but want real food for their money.

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                Washington DC delenda est.
        • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Sunday December 18 2016, @12:25PM

          by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Sunday December 18 2016, @12:25PM (#442661) Homepage
          Complete bollox, you're pretty much diametrically wrong. Stuffing yourself is the survival trait, nibbling on amuses bouches is the exact opposite.
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          Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
    • (Score: 2) by art guerrilla on Sunday December 18 2016, @03:43PM

      by art guerrilla (3082) on Sunday December 18 2016, @03:43PM (#442696)

      exactly, people standing around buffets, dessert bars, etc ALWAYS say 'oh, X is so-o-o-o delicious, i know it must be 'bad' for me...', or, 'why is it that all the foods i like are 'bad' for me ?', etc...
      they ALWAYS say that shit...
      and then eat that shit...
      its all good...

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 18 2016, @06:24PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 18 2016, @06:24PM (#442737)

      That was my point, too. I was going to add this implied point...but I could not be bothered.

      This phd is a load shite trying to make itself significant.

      Honestly hope there is more to the study than this (there probably is, but can't be bothered finding out) or the uni its from is shite too...

  • (Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Sunday December 18 2016, @10:01AM

    by dyingtolive (952) on Sunday December 18 2016, @10:01AM (#442645)

    Nah man, it's Indulgence. Indulgence causes the body to react in certain ways. The Christians have well established that with their entirely scientific and accurate findings on pregnancy, particularly after rape. If it's legitimate rape, then a woman's body just shuts that down, but if they enjoy it? Bam, baby! Same thing with food. If you ENJOY food, you become a lard-ass, but if you eat a styrofoam wafer dipped in watered-down milk gravy three times a day, then you're fine.

    (Takes a swig of beer and a smoke, and then pauses for a moment to reflect on how much humanity sucks.)

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    Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 18 2016, @10:17AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 18 2016, @10:17AM (#442649)

      Well sure, orgasm increases chance of conception, so if she enjoys it, her body is reacting in a receptive manner.

    • (Score: 2) by krishnoid on Sunday December 18 2016, @11:04PM

      by krishnoid (1156) on Sunday December 18 2016, @11:04PM (#442855)

      but if you eat a styrofoam wafer dipped in watered-down milk gravy

      I feel like I can almost, but not quite, identify if/what fast food restaurant/snack you're referring to ... Taco bell nachos, maybe?

      • (Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Tuesday December 20 2016, @03:26AM

        by dyingtolive (952) on Tuesday December 20 2016, @03:26AM (#443522)

        Honestly, I was thinking about my nutty Pentecostal grandparents' (may they forever rot in hell) idea of biscuits and gravy.

        Your suggestion is certainly apt to the description however.

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        Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!
  • (Score: 2) by Bogsnoticus on Sunday December 18 2016, @09:41PM

    by Bogsnoticus (3982) on Sunday December 18 2016, @09:41PM (#442825)

    It does sorta make sense however. If all I was able to get to eat was brussell sprouts [nedmartin.org], I'd willingly starve myself to death.

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    Genius by birth. Evil by choice.
  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 18 2016, @09:42PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 18 2016, @09:42PM (#442827)

    This is right up there with studies indicating that people that buy organic produce are foolish because such products are more expensive and the produce is not healthier.

    No one is buying organic because they think they will get extra health out of it. Less pesticides perhaps, but not because it has a few extra micrograms of vitamin C.

    Yet there are studies like that which are used by the various relevant industries to convince people to not change their behaviors to a less profitable one (such as the rejection of factory farming with pesticide usage and such).

    You're totally right and I can only think that this 'study' is paid for by Captain Fatty's Sugar Emporium or something like that, just in time to let people feel good about indulging extra food for the holidays.