Eating Disorders Impacting Weight May Also Change Perception Of How Food Tastes, Small Study Finds.

, “Eating disorders that impact your weight – like anorexia nervosa, binge-eating disorder, or obesity – may also change the way you taste food,” research suggests. In the study involving 106 women who “tasted both sugar water and a tasteless water solution” while undergoing a brain scan, researchers discovered that “abnormal eating patterns – like anorexia or obesity – impaired” a part of the brain called the “insula’s ability to identify taste.” People with “anorexia or obesity had a harder time telling the difference between the sugar water and the regular water, compared to control subjects – and even people who had recovered from anorexia,” the study found. The findings were published online April 16 in the International Journal of Eating Disorders. http://www.medicaldaily.com/obese-anorexic-people-taste-buds-eating-disorders-386585