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Does your smell help you to be slim?
What a nice smell? It is a red pork curry ! I am sure it is delicious. I am not hungry but I can not resist the odour. I have to taste it! The smell help to enjoy to eat or to protect to eat bad things, but apparently, the odour does not keep safe to become overweight
According New Scientist in recent research Lorenzo Stafford and Kimberley Welbeck from the University of Portsmouth, UK found a relation between overweight people has a better capacity to smell food than others. Moreover, in a research with 24 volunteers who has to smell an herbal food odour and a non-food in different level alcohol dilution, when they were hungry and when they were sated. The unexpected result was with the people with a high BMI (body mass index), they were more capable to smell food odours than the ones with a normal BMI. Stafford speculates that this acute perception of odours in a high BMI person can not avoid they to eat less, it is the contrary.
Twenty four people in a research it is not enough to conclude about the relation between odour and BMI but to start to consider result of the research to find out it can be generalized. In any case, it improves science. What about you Do I absolutely eat a food it is so attract the smell?
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I agree a good smell could invite you to eat or bad smell cause you to avoid to eat, but I think if you are hungry a good odor is going to make the skinniest person want to eat.
ReplyDeleteIn my reasoning when you are hungry and you are in a nice environment with a good odor, and you have more Body mass index you have more capability to eat.
It is a surprising result. It made think of Tarns latest post, which I've just read. It's not exactly the same, but I think there is often a temptation to think that something is so "obviously" true that people don't check it, and when a check is done, it turns out that the obviously true is false.
ReplyDeleteOne think I liked in Cristina's article is that although the researches had an idea they wanted to test before starting, they let the facts decide whether that idea was true or false. It's a good idea to have some facts before you make up the explanation that explains them, as Sherlock Holmes always insisted on.
I quite agree with the result. Although it used few volunteers in experiment, the result may commonly happen that someone who has better smell system can earliy be attracted by food and then they cannot stop desireing to eat.
ReplyDeleteFortunately, my BMI result is in normal level which means I might not be persuade by food odour easily.