Posted on 08/01/2019 5:30:33 AM PDT by SMGFan
Obese people eat more food because it simply tastes better, a new study has found.
Researchers at the University of Iowa gave chocolate to a group of obese and non-obese women and found that as the obese group kept eating the food continued to taste almost as good to them as the first bite.
The findings suggest that understanding taste perceptions may be crucial to preventing obesity when combined with targeting nutritional awareness.
“If people with obesity have different taste perceptions than nonobese people, it could lead to better understanding of obesity,” lead investigator Linnea Polgreen noted, according to News Medical.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Exactly. I am 5 ft 8 inches and my sister is about 5 ft 4 inches. She can’t eat half as much as I can without gaining weight. But it is catching up with both of us now. Our mother hated to cook, was a terrible cook, so I was a SKINNY KID! LOL
I wasn’t holy but I was a cow :)
I just want to get it over with and then maintain.
And thank you :)
I could have written that post. :)
Frankly, my wife is such a good cook that even good restaurant food is a disappointment. We rarely do it and it’s disappointing when we do - and the side effects can be negative as well.
Frankly, ignoring the moral implications, it is synonymous with renting the occasional hooker. Not worth the money and home cooked is better anyway.
Sad, but some prescription medication will cause unusual desire to eat.
Shocking that a pint of ice cream could be 1000+ calories
“Put down the fork~!”
You’re part right. Blaming it on a business that supplies what the public “wishes” to put in their mouths is not the answer. Businesses that make their money selling food will always entice you to buy what they can supply. But putting down the fork isn’t the answer either.
There are two pieces of eating to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Neither has to do with amount of food or the time or way you eat it. Obesity is a definition based upon what people think. It’s like everyone being 98.6 degrees for a normal temperature. Hippos are bigger than worms. Both eat, just different amounts they need to maintain their DNA requirements. And they eat different things consistent with their natural dietary requirements.
It’s even different among species. This is shark week on TV. All week we have seen sharks of many different shapes and sizes eat fish, people, seals...as they will eat about anything. Yet the largest sharks, basking, megamouth, and the whale shark eat plankton including copepods, krill, fish eggs, Christmas Island red crab larvae and occasionally may accidentally ingest small nektonic life, such as small squid or fish. So the choice of foods is important as to their, like your, needs.
The other piece of eating is misconception. If a person is healthy, in most cases, if they are concerned about it, they will eat to filling and not to gluttony. Overeating is not a disease like diabetes, insulin resistance, or thyroid problems. At least not physically. (Both these illnesses can cause obesity)
I trained military members conditioning for many years along with their family members. The only things I ever asked them to do was to use what they ate, and asked themselves how they felt. Did they all become skinny? Not even close. Did they all reach conditioning levels at their peak? At their peak, yes. But it wasn’t done by putting down the fork. It was because they wanted to feel better about and for themselves. You still have to put good gas in the car for it to run.
And all the finger pointing out there, gym membership proposals, the advertising of 400 calorie fast food sandwiches, (do you want fires with that), were parts of the hurdles they had to jump to get there. Everyone has a symbol of appearance...Arnold, Tom Cruise, Marlyn, Rachael McLish....many different ones. Why don’t they make it? Their DNA and their capacity is different and won’t let them. So setting a standard that can’t be reached is not healthy, it creates further problems mentally. Yet society demands concurrence with the unreachable. And they realize at the same time that the last perfect person on earth was put on the cross. But that’s how money is made.
Be who you are and be happy with it. You can be the tiger or the gorilla or the hippo, all are large eaters. And I’ve never seen any of them in the wild doing sets with dumbbells or even changing their diets to fit the observers around them. Man is the only animal on earth that creates expectations for others. And I’m told we’re on top of the food chain. How we got there is not a mystery but staying there is.
rwood
My pleasure, dp!
Is that the case or does it take them a greater quantity to feel satisfied from what they eat? If so, it seems as if they might enjoy it less.
Golly, ya think? Fat people enjoying good, who’d a think it? Big question is, why didn’t the funding agency just ask me? I wouldn’t have billed them more than $39k.( The remaining balance of my mortgage)
There are metabolic issues that no one is talking about.
My cholesterol counts are good. My blood pressure this morning was 110 over 72. My resting heart rate is in the 50’s. I go to the gym 3 to 4 times a week. My job is physical, I might spend 1/2 an hour a day at my desk.
Yet I am 6’ tall and weight 282
I cut my caloric intake to 1200 a day and I am maintaining, but not losing weight.
Am doing keno now, but not really seeing improvement.
Tried to go to an endocrinologist, but the one my insurance will pay for says they don’t do weight loss.
It really pisses me off to see holier than thou jerks telling overweight people to eat less ice cream. F you and the horse you rode in on.
When I've had three drinks I get sleepy... same with others in my family - none of us became alcoholics - or had any fun drinking...
He was a pretty big guy, 6 feet, 200 pounds. As part of his recovery, they pumped him full of steroids, and he swelled up to 400.
He's still struggling with the weight all these years later, medically retired, can't work...
Whenever I eat pho, which isn’t too often, it tastes great at first. “Wow, this is good,” I’ll think or say. By the time it’s half gone, I’m thinking, “why does this suddenly taste like crap?” Happens every time. If I needed to lose weight, I would eat pho.
I envy people who really enjoy the taste of food, but thankfully, the ones I know try to stick to the foods that they enjoy the most.
They won’t waste their “snack allotment” (as it were) on crappy chips just because they like chips. This becomes self-limiting, as the crappy stuff is usually the most widely available and the good stuff is a bit pricier, so you have to budget cost along with the calories.
I love the taste of a lot of food, and am still a little fat. But with recent health checkup changed what I eat. With that I lost 30+ LBS in 8 weeks without giving up on flavor or eating kale or salad.
Stop eating processed foods
Stop eating bread
Stop eating sugar
Stop eating corn or corn derivatives
Stop eating starches like potatoes and rice and pasta
Stop drinking beer/wine/hard liquor
At this point you may say what do you eat
Steak
Sweet potato
Asparagus
Green veggies
Fish/Shrimp w/out batter
Chicken Not battered but deep fry it if you want
Any meat really, like sausage, go ahead
Cheese
Milk and dairy, not fake, and not low fat, eat real butter
Berries, like strawberry, blackberries, raspberries, blueberries, etc...
Nuts, any and all, salted or not, not the sugar coated ones
Bacon, eat a lot of bacon, and eggs are good along with sausage, turkey, and roast beef
Simply put, meat, dairy, and green veggies along with sweet potato and you will eat great and drop the pounds without sacrifice of taste. It has super ability to lower your diabetes risks, indexing very low, and the weight loss dumped my need for high blood pressure meds. Truth is nothing at McDonalds is good for you except black coffee and the water. Their breads are nothing but sugars, getting off sugar is #1, getting off of starches is a close #2. Zero carbs, zero sugar = easy loss in weight.
That’s our diet as well. Mr. trisham has type 2 diabetes. In the past 3 years, he’s lost 70 pounds and feels great!
I gained weight because I mostly ate out of boredom.
Thank God I discovered the Keto diet and Intermittent Fasting.
Processed Carbs are cheap.
Actually that's the best thing about Keto, you really don't get hungry. On most days, I don't even eat at the office, and I don't even think about it. Now, I will say, you have to work yourself towards it, and gradually ween yourself from carbs, try to cut 20 grams carbs per day each week, until you get down to no more than 20 grams of carbs a day.
Try that experiment again but use turnips instead.
I get that way after 2 drinks. My mother would criticize people who would only "nurse" one or two drinks when they went out for the evening. She would drink until she was really drunk. She didn't think you could have "fun" otherwise.
As for weight --- I am overweight. Losing weight is almost impossible, my body responds by gaining weight whenever I try to lose weight. Yeh, I know, not possible -- except that my body is just weird in the way it responds to stuff.
I do know that I am very sensitive to "heat" in food. I will find some food spicy, while other people look at me like I am nuts; because, they don't think it is spicy at all. So, perhaps my sensitivity to the way food tastes, plays into my weight. I don't know.
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