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Obesity in children and adolescents may be a matter of taste.
In a cross-sectional cohort study, obese children and adolescents were less sensitive to salty, bitter, and umami (savory) tastes than those of normal weight, according to Susanna Wiegand, MD, of Charit? Children's Hospital in Berlin, and colleagues.
There were no significant differences overall in the case of sweet and sour tastes, but obese participants consistently rated sweet samples as less sweet than did the normal-weight volunteers, Wiegand and colleagues reported online in Archives of Disease in Childhood.
http://www.medpagetoday.com/Pediatrics/Obesity/34846
In a cross-sectional cohort study, obese children and adolescents were less sensitive to salty, bitter, and umami (savory) tastes than those of normal weight, according to Susanna Wiegand, MD, of Charit? Children's Hospital in Berlin, and colleagues.
There were no significant differences overall in the case of sweet and sour tastes, but obese participants consistently rated sweet samples as less sweet than did the normal-weight volunteers, Wiegand and colleagues reported online in Archives of Disease in Childhood.
http://www.medpagetoday.com/Pediatrics/Obesity/34846