Rich food good says research[suspect the result-may be done for company profit ]

Eat in peace: Here’s why you can have a tasty meal and not put on weight

health-and-fitness Updated: Dec 17, 2016 10:20 IST

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Good-tasting food does not cause obesity!!!!!, say researchers, claiming that good taste only determines what we choose to eat, not how much of it. (Shutterstock)

• chocolate, potato chips and sweetened condensed milk[suspect companies who sponsored this research]

Yes, you read that right. Contradicting the popular belief that delicious foods such as chocolate, potato chips and sweetened condensed milk are unhealthy and lead to obesity, a new study suggests that desirable taste itself may not necessarily lead to weight gain.
“Most people think that good-tasting food causes obesity, but that is not the case. Good taste determines what we choose to eat, but not how much we eat over the long-term,” said Michael Tordoff from Monell Chemical Senses Centre in the US.
Researchers designed a series of experiments to assess the role of taste in driving overeating and weight gain.

They first established that laboratory mice strongly like food with added nonnutritive sweet or oily tastes.
To do this they gave mice two cups of food. One group of mice had a choice between a cup of plain rodent chow and a cup of chow mixed with the noncaloric sweetener sucralose.
The other group received a choice between a cup of plain rodent chow and a cup of chow mixed with mineral oil, which also has no calories.
The mice ignored the plain chow and ate almost all of their food from the cups containing the sweetened or oily chow, establishing that these non-caloric tastes were indeed very appealing.
Next, new groups of mice received one of the three diets for six weeks: one group was fed plain chow, one group was fed chow with added sucralose, and one group was fed chow with added mineral oil.
At the end of this period, the groups fed the sweet or oily chow were no heavier or fatter than were the animals fed the plain chow.
Additional tests revealed that even after six weeks, the animals still highly preferred the taste-enhanced diets, demonstrating the persistent strong appeal of both sweet and oily tastes.