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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: 2) by dyingtolive on Sunday December 18 2016, @10:01AM
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.)
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 18 2016, @10:17AM
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
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
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.
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!