28 Your taste buds make you overeat.
Not because food tastes good, but because you can’t taste it as well. While overeaters tend to have stronger senses of smell, research has actually found that they often have weaker senses of taste—leading them to eat more food in order to experience the same taste enjoyment. That was the finding of a study that gave obese and non-obese children different taste strips to lick and identify, rating the amount of flavor from 0 to 20. The heavier kids scored the flavor at an average of 12.6 compared to the non-obese kids, who experienced an average of 14 on the flavor scale.
