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Research has found that people who are overweight have a stronger sense of smell.
Scientists from the University of Portsmouth, UK, continue to study weight problems and claim that they will soon find an answer to why it is so difficult for some people to maintain normal weight. Experts already know that the part of the brain that processes information received through our sense of smell is responsible for our eating habits. The latest research has been published in the journal Chemical Senses.
In the UK, about one in four adults is overweight, and doctors fear that these numbers will increase in the near future as people gain weight faster and more. Of course, in our time, abundant food and a sedentary lifestyle are seriously condemned, but the problems of excess weight are still relevant. Scientists are looking for reasons why obesity is so common among the population. A group of scientists led by Dr. Lorenzo Stafford claims that malfunctioning of the olfactory organs is to blame for everything.
Their experiment involved 64 volunteers of different ages, who tested the functioning of their olfactory organs. As a result, it turned out that people react to food odors slightly more strongly after eating than when they are hungry. Scientists are still at a loss as to why this happens, but Dr. Stafford suggests that this is probably how the human body tells him that food is no longer needed. A person smells more acutely and understands that you no longer need to eat to maintain the right balance of energy in the body.
People who are overweight, that is, those with a body mass index above average, have a more acute sense of smell than slender people, and after a full meal their olfactory ability only getting worse. Dr. Stafford believes that a keen sense of smell makes a person continue to eat even after they are full. He says: “We can assume that some people's tendency to become obese is due to a strong olfactory capacity that encourages them to eat more than the body requires. We hope that these findings will lead to more serious research in this area and, as a result, will help fight obesity.”