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Increasing taste for fat could reduce obesity

Training our taste buds’ sensitivity to fat is a potential way to reduce overweight and obesity. Deakin University nutrition experts have found that eating a high-fat diet can desensitise a person’s ability to taste fat in foods, which may lead to overeating of fatty foods and subsequent weight gain.

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