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Weight, Obesity May Be Regulated by Taste Sensitivity

  • October 29, 2004

You may remember a story I wrote several months ago about people who were born with more sensitive taste buds than others -- super tasters -- making them better able to differentiate between tastes. New research has taken this a step further which could account for the obesity crisis in some way: People especially sensitive to the bitter compounds in foods tend to be super tasters and 20 percent thinner than "nontasters," those not sensitive to bitter tastes. On the not so good side...