Sensitivity to sweet taste predicts weight loss from bariatric surgery
Bariatric surgery leads to greater weight loss in patients who had a heightened perception of sweetness before surgery, according to a study led by scientists from the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, in Lisbon, Portugal. They claim that their study shows, for the first time, that preoperative sweet intensity predicts weight loss after surgery and that post-surgery changes in this variable track the amount of weight loss in each patient.