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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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 18 2016, @01:58PM
In the fifties those were more like special occasion things then every day things. That makes a big difference. As for HFCS, like gluten, it's in most of our processed foods. Cut those foods for whatever reason and you'll probably lose weight.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 18 2016, @10:04PM
This right here.
However also in the 70/80s everyone went through that 'low fat' diet thing. Turns out no fat = crap taste. Guess how they got the flavor back? Sugar, ascorbic acid, and salt. Sugar comes in about a dozen different forms. HFCS is the cheapest one currently to add.
It is amazing the number of things that have large amounts of sugar in it. Take something simple like apple juice. Good for you? Not so much. It is just a natural sugar. Apple/pear/grape juice is one way they put sugar into your diet and call it 'natural'. Well it is. Just happens it is not terribly good for you being mostly sugar. One of the reasons Adkins works so well is not the high fat/protein. Its the absence of sugar. Bread/crackers is only a few key ingredients away from cake.
(Score: 2) by Nollij on Thursday December 22 2016, @01:47AM
Some quick Googling revealed at least 56:
Agave nectar*
Barbados sugar*
Barley malt
Beet sugar*
Blackstrap molasses*
Brown rice syrup*
Brown sugar*
Buttered syrup*
Cane juice crystals*
Cane sugar*
Caramel*
Carob syrup*
Castor sugar*
Confectioner’s sugar*
Corn syrup
Corn syrup solids
Crystalline fructose*
Date sugar*
Demerara sugar*
Dextran
Dextrose
Diastatic malt
Diatase
Ethyl maltol
Evaporated cane juice*
Florida crystals*
Fructose*
Fruit juice*
Fruit juice concentrate*
Galactose
Glucose
Glucose solids
Golden sugar*
Golden syrup*
Grape sugar*
High-fructose corn syrup*
Honey*
Icing sugar*
Invert sugar*
Lactose
Malt syrup
Maltose
Maple syrup*
Molasses*
Muscovado sugar*
Organic raw sugar*
Panocha*
Raw sugar*
Refiner’s syrup*
Rice syrup
Sorghum syrup*
Sucrose*
Sugar*
Treacle*
Turbinado sugar*
Yellow sugar*
The FDA considers sugar to be any one of the following six compounds: glucose, galactose, fructose, maltose (glucose-glucose), lactose (glucose-galactose), and sucrose (glucose-fructose).
source [responsiblefoods.org]