Does obesity alter our sense of taste?
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Biologists at the University at Buffalo have found that being severely overweight alters the way we taste food. They observed that obese mice had fewer taste cells capable of detecting sweetness than slimmer mice. Read more in PLOS ONE.
AB Maliphol et al., PLOS ONE, 2013. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079403