Bariatric Surgery May Be Associated With Increased Taste Sensitivity.

reports that research suggests that individuals who are obese “have less sensitive taste buds than normal-weight people, but bariatric surgery may increase their taste sensitivity in addition to helping them shed pounds.” The findings were presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery.Morton suspects that improved taste buds allowed some of the patients to change their relation to food, and therefore become satisfied by taste and do not need to eat as much to be satisfied by volume as they had in the past. It’s unknown how taste buds change or why obese participants had less sensitivity at baseline, Morton noted, but based on the study and his clinical experience, obese patients do have taste buds that are different from normal weight people, he said. http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/11/04/bariatric-surgery-linked-with-increased-taste-sensitivity/ THIS TOTALLY CONTRADICTS RESEARCH OUT EARLIER THIS WEEK http://www.medpagetoday.com/MeetingCoverage/ObesityWeek/48322?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2014-10-31&utm_content=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DailyHeadlines&utm_source=ST&eun=g721819d0r&userid=721819&email=amydugan2%40gmail.com&mu_id=5883165&utm_term=Daily