Scientists at Cornell University have found that obesity dulls the sense of taste, forcing people to eat more high-calorie foods rich in sugar, fat or salt in order to get the satisfaction they want..

According to experts, the taste buds on the tongue, which are responsible for the perception of a particular taste, consist of about 50-100 cells.. Receptors are renewed every 10 days in a process that involves a balanced combination of old cell death and new cell generation.

However, findings have shown that in obese people, the rate of cell death increases and the rate of new cell production slows down, resulting in fewer taste buds and therefore a reduced sense of taste.. As a result, to get the desired pleasure from food, a person has to eat more..

It is noted that the presence of genetic resistance to obesity helps to counteract this process - this led the experts to conclude that the dulling of the sense of taste is the result of the accumulation of adipose tissue, and not just the use of high-calorie foods.. According to the researchers, the weakening of taste sensitivity may be associated with inflammation that occurs in the body in the presence of obesity and affects the death of taste receptor cells..

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