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226: How to End Food Cravings and Fix Your Metabolism | Mark Schatzker

The Genius Life

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Can We Take Beverages and Make Them Just as Rewarding but With Less Calories?

A scientist at yale created five drinks that all tasted like they had 75 calories in them. But when she put her subjects through a brain scanner, there was no reaction to one of the drinks. This tells us how important the faculty of taste is this is like operating instructions. When we monkey around with taste, bad things happen. We might enjoy food that tastes like chicken, but it's not good for our health.

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