This blog is about a passage that I read in "The End of Overeating" by David A. Kessler. In chapter 3 "Sugar, Fat and Salt Makes us Eat More Sugar, Fat and Salt", food is said to be palatable when it has the capacity to stimulate our appetite and prompts us to eat more. For food to be palatable it usually contains a combination of sugar, fat and salt. Palatable food generally arouses our appetite, rather than genuine hunger, that makes us eat more and more even after our calorie needs are satisfied.
According to a study conducted by Adam Drewnowski, initially he focused on sugar but was soon convinced that sugar itself is not the only reason we're so partial to sweet foods. He found that what we like is not sugar alone, but sugar in combination with fat. Fat, he wrote, " is responsible for the characteristic texture, flavor, and aroma of many foods and largely determines the palatability of the diet " (pg.13, "The End of overeating"). Mixing the same amount of sugar into low-fat and high-fat products, people invariably prefer higher-fat mixtures. Hence fat and sugar levels both influence preferences. Therefore eating foods high in sugar, fat, and salt makes us eat more foods which is very harmful for health leading to obesity and diabetes.
