Food Palatability and Body Fatness: Clues from Alliesthesia

Part I: Is there a Ponderostat?

Some of the most important experiments for understanding the role of food palatability/reward in body fatness were performed by Dr. Michel Cabanac and collaborators in the 1970s (hat tip to Dr. Seth Roberts for the references).� In my recent food reward series (1), I referenced but did not discuss Dr. Cabanac's work because I felt it would have taken too long to describe.� However, I included two of his studies in my Ancestral Health Symposium talk, and I think they're worth discussing in more detail here.

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This post was written by Stephan Guyenet for Whole Health Source.

Source: http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2011/08/food-palatability-and-body-fatness.html

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