Study: Obesity and its effects on taste

Day after day, studies and medical research reveal the danger of obesity and overweight for public health and relate them to the incidence of a number of diseases. Here is a study that adds to that and that obesity affects the sense of taste. How?

Obesity and taste:

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Obesity affects brain areas responsible for taste, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Binghamton.

To monitor the effect of weight gain on taste, the team followed a group of obese mice. The team focused on the effects of obesity on responses to taste stimuli in the nucleus of a part of the brain involved in the treatment of taste in men and women. the mouse.

The researchers recorded the reactions to individual cell taste triggers in the brainstem of obese mice by adopting a high-fat diet.

Result of the study:

The researchers found that taste responses were smaller in size, shorter in duration and longer to develop than in rats that ate fat-free foods.

These findings suggest that a high-fat diet produces obscure responses, but exerts more influence on the places responsible for taste in the brain.

"Other scientists have discovered that the number of taste buds on the tongue decreased in obese mice and humans, so the effects of obesity on the taste responses of the human brain are also possible" said Patricia de Lorenzo, head of the team.