The aroma of delicious food is one of life's greatest pleasures, especially when we're hungry.. However, scientists believe that the smell of food may be to blame for weight gain.. At the same time, the point is not only that, smelling the aroma of appetizing food, a person loses willpower - in addition, the smell can cause physiological changes that cause some people to gain weight.

Researchers from the University of California concluded that blocking the sense of smell can promote weight loss.. The experts explain that the sense of smell helps control our metabolism, and the absence of smell encourages the body to burn the calories received, rather than storing them as fat..

Previous research has also shown that overweight people are much more sensitive to food odors than normal weight people.. This is due to the fact that certain areas of the brain of obese people react more intensely to the flavors of food.. According to scientists, one of the goals in weight loss is to block this excessive brain response to smell.. One variant of this approach suggests that overweight people can be temporarily "

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