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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: 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...

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