AIMAN INAM

CALIFORNIA: No one can imagine having food sans smelling it as we tend to smell our food before consuming. However, related to our habit, what researchers have discovered must be shocking for us!

Investigators from the University of California, Berkeley, claimed that we might put on weight if we smell what we ingest.

They conducted this mind-boggling experiment on mice model. Researchers obstructed the sense of smell in one group of adult mice by means of two techniques for a particular time.

The smell deficient mice imbibed the same high-fat diet as those who could smell their foods. However, those who could not odor their food have been reported gaining only 10 percent body mass by contrast, the normal mice have been reported gaining almost 100 percent weight.

Also, obese mice with loss of smell sense have been reported with reduced body mass when compares to normal one. In these mice, white fat cells, the storage cells that gather around our internal organs and are linked with deprived health outcomes, also reduced in size.

They further inferred that the odor of our meals could play an important role in how the body copes with calories. In other words, you are more likely to burn those calories if you cannot smell what you eat.

Journal Cell Metabolism reported their ramifications.