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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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 18 2016, @09:42PM
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.