Smelling food causes weight gain now? What are your thoughts on this?

[dantetheexplorer]

This study was done on mice.
Not humans.

Mice aren’t humans.
Lots of things that cause or cure obesity in mice hasn't panned out in humans.

If you read the paper, you'll find that the paper is about metabolism in mice, specifically the signals that go around in a mouse's body that instructs its cells that they, it's time to store fat. The researchers wondered if the smell and taste of food might be involved.

So these researchers did a series of experiments with (i) mice that can smell really well, (ii) mice that can barely smell at all, and (iii) mice whose sense of smell was temporarily blocked. They found that the better a mouse could smell, the more weight they gain and keep—even if they don’t overeat.

To be specific, they found that:

- Blocking an obese mouse’s sense of smell made it lose weight.
- Mice with a normal sense of smell gained weight faster than mice that can’t smell, even when they ate the same amount of high-fat food.
- Mice with a super sense of smell gained weight even faster than the normal mice.

Conclusion:

Smelling is probably only making “you” fat if “you” are a very particular type of mouse.

Guess what?
We're not mice.

I'll wait until they complete a study on humans.

[NamerOfStars]

It's just the latest in a long line of ludicrous weight-loss theories. Calories in, calories out, that's the core; anything on top of that is really just details. But doing that is hard, so we have great nutritional boogeymen: saturated fats in the 90's, trans fats in the 00's, sugar today, something else tomorrow.

I'm waiting on the day when some study declares that water is an attack on your waistline. It's coming, no mistake.

[btbc92]

I don't find that to be true at all. And I feel that the study is misrepresented. The reason why I say that is because if that's really true, we'll be seeing a lot of people gaining weight so quick without even putting effort to eating. What I believe is that the study is saying, is that because of the type of chemicals that enticed us to want to eat certain foods, we tend to gravitate towards please and smells, and that is what makes us be open to gain weight according to what was snow. Other than that. Just smelling the loan went and just make us lose or gain weight. I can see that if we are smelling pollution and smoke. But regular food? better smell like garbage in order for you to not even want it.

[Mystic_Nova]

I'd that's the case, I'd just eat it then lmao.

But, I dont believe that. You have to consume to gain calories, cause er you can make valoireabfrom tiin air. If that was the case, those in the food industry would all be oompa loompas

[Madhatter920]

As far as I'm aware, theirs is the only study to show this. It's a pretty big claim, so I'd be interested if anyone was able to repeat those findings. If true, that would be fascinating and could very well be the next diet craze. "Plug your nose before going around food, until you're finished eating and watch the pounds melt away!" I can see the Facebook posts now.

[Kurαȷ]

It sounds as shockingly nonsensical, misleading and unscientific as every other study that tries to suggest there being anything more to the mechanisms of weight loss / gain than the calorie in - calorie out formula.

I bet they follow with something braindead like "people who smell their food eat more of it! And that makes them gain weight! The smelling! Yes!".

[Astarlessnightsky]

Not smelling the food also ruins the taste, so you probably will stop eating after a couple of bites.

[nodnol32]

If that was the case we'd all be overweight. Every grocery store has the smell of food even if the smell isn't strong enough to be noticed.

[Anonymouus_]

fat studies are dumb just like gender studies. they lack common sense

[ChefPapiChulo]

Interesting. I’ve lost my sense of smell lately and I've lost 6 pounds this past month. But I’ve also been eating less.

[Roberto5643]

I thought I was putting on weight when I worked at McDonald’s lol

[LEADFOOTboi]

Q - Q how interesting...

[In_Trance]

UC Berkeley are fkn retards