Does smelling food also make you fat? It seems so ...
Following a meticulous diet, healthy training, may not be enough. If you smell too inviting ... a mechanism could be triggered that leads to fat storage. UC Berkeley researchers have shown this. Perhaps this news will depress you, especially if you react to the smell of food like they do to noises ...
I study
The research, conducted by UC Berkeley, was based on groups of mice stimulated to eat a lot.
Exactly three groups of mice, each with different olfactory abilities. All the rodents were fed with caloric food from fast food, but it was especially the specimens with a very developed sense of smell that put on weight in a very evident way.
While mice with a good sense of smell gained about double their initial weight, those with a poor sense of smell gained only 10 percent more weight. After even starting to stop fattened mice from sniffing the food before eating it, the scientists noticed that they progressively began to lose weight, without making any major changes to their signature fast food diet. What does this mean?
See also
The results
If it seems certain that the metabolism of rodents is strongly influenced by the sense of smell, the UC Berkeley scholars do not exclude the fact that the same fate may also apply to us. More in-depth studies will be carried out, but in the meantime, of course, we must not stop smelling our foods that generate the well-known "mouth water" and allow us to enjoy eating! In short, in our opinion, the game is not worth the candle: losing the sense of smell generates depression, so probably depriving ourselves of it in terms of food would be just a useless waste.
Without forgetting that food is also good for you, smelled and not:
