{"id":174,"date":"2008-06-17T01:25:20","date_gmt":"2008-06-16T23:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/wordpress\/flavoring-food-can-assist-with-weight-loss\/"},"modified":"2015-02-12T21:06:26","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T02:06:26","slug":"flavoring-food-can-assist-with-weight-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/flavoring-food-can-assist-with-weight-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Flavoring Food Can Assist With Weight Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2008\/06\/17\/us-flavor-weight-idUSCOL75545520080617?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=healthNews&amp;pageNumber=1&amp;virtualBrandChannel=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8230;According to research presented at the Endocrine Society&#8217;s annual meeting<\/a> in San Francisco.\u00a0 Subjects using special savory and\/or sweet &#8220;tastant&#8221; crystals on their food for 6 months lost an average of 30.5 lbs., while a small control group lost only 2 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Lead researcher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smellandtaste.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Alan Hirsch<\/a> speculated that the subjects getting the taste crystals lost more weight because they were more satisfied, and ate less.\u00a0 An alternative explanation, however, was that &#8220;&#8230;the tastants improved the flavor of bland but healthy foods such as tofu and some vegetables, resulting in healthier eating habits.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I&#8217;d put my money on the second explanation.\u00a0 In all the years I&#8217;ve been\u00a0reviewing people&#8217;s diets, I&#8217;ve been struck by how dull they are.\u00a0 It&#8217;s as if people instinctively feel that healthy food = boring food.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been drilled into them that\u00a0fitness is all about discomfort and self-denial,\u00a0so they\u00a0end up fulfilling\u00a0their own expectations.\u00a0 It&#8217;s plain grilled this and plain steamed that; with the same old meals day-after-day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No wonder they crack and give into cravings.<\/p>\n<p>Eating healthy doesn&#8217;t have to be boring.\u00a0 There are tons of ways to make simple foods interesting with different recipes and seasonings &#8211; just takes a little imagination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;According to research presented at the Endocrine Society&#8217;s annual meeting in San Francisco.\u00a0 Subjects using special savory and\/or sweet &#8220;tastant&#8221; crystals on their food for 6 months lost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8086,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/8086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}