Study: Obesity Affect Taste Receptors Tongue

The study involves a series of tests on 50 rats.

The accumulation of fat in the body not only affects whether your favorite jin fit or not, but also your ability to taste food.

Yes, as reported by the Daily Meal, a study recently conducted has found that obesity can affect a person's taste receptors on the tongue, making it more difficult to detect the sweet taste.

Studies conducted by researchers at the University of Buffalo that involves a series of tests on 50 rats were divided into two groups. One group was given a high-fat diet and the other group was left to undergo the normal diet.

After eight weeks, the rats in the first group experienced significant weight gain. They also measured the level of calcium in taste receptor cells, because the level of calcium in the cells usually increases when certain flavors detected.

According to a study published in the journal PLoS ONE, the calcium signals induced in the sense of taste cells was significantly reduced in obese mice, especially for sweet and bitter taste.

"Fewer cells of obese mice flavors that are sensitive to sweet stimuli. In addition, among the cells that are responsive, signal that wakes were significantly reduced in both amplitude peak and the region as a whole," the study report.

Thus, the taste receptor cells seem to lose the ability to respond with the right kind of stimulation.

Then, what does it mean?

Researchers have theorized that the ability to perceive sweet taste can increase the consumption of sweet foods, and makes a person more often wanting intake of sweet foods, which in turn makes their weight becomes increasingly soaring.

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