Smelling food makes you gain weight?

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Momepro
Momepro Posts: 1,509 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Well just anecdotally, my Mom's as heavy as me and she lost her sense of smell in her very early teens. Of course it's also the same time she had a goiter removed and not long after was diagnosed with hypothyroidism.

https://www.aol.com/article/lifestyle/2017/07/07/new-study-finds-smelling-our-food-might-be-linked-to-weight-gain/23021010/

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  • MsChucktowski
    MsChucktowski Posts: 121 Member
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    I've been without a sense of smell since birth and I've always been overweight.. :|
  • Momepro
    Momepro Posts: 1,509 Member
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    kommodevaran wrote: »
    Not filtering out this kind of nonsense was why I was fat :s

    Nah skinny people read silly stuff too :smiley:
  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
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    grmrsan wrote: »
    kommodevaran wrote: »
    Not filtering out this kind of nonsense was why I was fat :s

    Nah skinny people read silly stuff too :smiley:

    I know. I was skinny at first. Then I stopped being skinny :p
  • HeliumIsNoble
    HeliumIsNoble Posts: 1,213 Member
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    I read it was the other way around!
  • Momepro
    Momepro Posts: 1,509 Member
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    kommodevaran wrote: »
    grmrsan wrote: »
    kommodevaran wrote: »
    Not filtering out this kind of nonsense was why I was fat :s

    Nah skinny people read silly stuff too :smiley:

    I know. I was skinny at first. Then I stopped being skinny :p

    ROFL!!
  • Old_Cat_Lady
    Old_Cat_Lady Posts: 1,193 Member
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    Last month the headlines were:
    Tasting food makes you gain weight.
  • MelanieCN77
    MelanieCN77 Posts: 4,047 Member
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    Oh my I heard this probably decades ago and it makes me laugh. I tell it to people when I'm feeling a bit black humoured.
  • Momepro
    Momepro Posts: 1,509 Member
    edited July 2017
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    @Thewjordinwjordan :D:D
  • middlehaitch
    middlehaitch Posts: 8,484 Member
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    My dad had no sense of smell so didn't enjoy food, he was rail thin.
    My sister has an incredible sense of smell so doesn't enjoy food, she is rail thin.
    The taste of food is also connected to the smell of food.

    The three of us with an average sense are within the normal BMI range.

    Cheers, h.
  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 8,991 Member
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    TheWJordinWJordin wrote: »
    Last month the headlines were:
    Tasting food makes you gain weight.


    Well that could make sense - lots of little tastes could add up - I'll just have a taste of cake, a taste of chocolate, a taste of pie........ ;)

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