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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: 4, Funny) by Thexalon on Sunday December 18 2016, @02:32PM
The British, by contrast, live by the theory of somehow managing to swallow barely-edible food, as their civic duty.
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 18 2016, @03:48PM
Might have been true once, but when I visit England and eat in a pub the food has always been very good. Maybe my friends are directing me to the good pubs? Have also had a few elegant and very high quality "fancy dinners" with clients in England, very much up there with best restaurant experiences in other countries.