Why do we eat too much? It's the fault of the hyper-palatability, a new sensitivity to the tastes and amplified enriched with salts, sugars and fats by food producers.
MILANO - Grease because we eat too much, but the fault may not be fully and uniquely ours. Indeed, probably swallow foods that are addictive because they were manipulated by the producers and enriched with salt, fat and sugar to prevent us from wanting to stop. This is the theory of the Harvard professor David Kessler, former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, that this argument has written a book ("The End of Overeating," Italian translation does not yet exist but you can buy on Amazon).
LIKE CIGARETTES - The palatability is one of the factors that most affect the producers of food: whether you are a cheese flavor, firm structure, or the filling of delicate fresh pasta, is the encounter with the palate of the consumer to determine the success or failure of a food being sold . For this reason chemists and researchers working to improve - and strengthen - the taste experience of their products. But this trend has been carried to excess, according to Professor Kessler, just as they did with cigarettes 'power' with ammonia and other additives to increase the desire to fumarne again, that the complaint does not abandon the cigarette manufacturers since 2005 . And the excess driving manufacturers to seek not only joy of taste, but that of an unnatural, called by Kessler's "hyper-palatability.
fortified foods - To achieve this goal are different techniques used. The first and most common is to "enhance" the ingredients of the dishes with salt, sugar and fats to make them more appealing to the palate. The second is to create a new chewing experience: if the foods are easy to chew and swallow, thanks to an encounter with soft tongue and teeth, you will want to quickly jot down a second bite. These measures would stimulate the our nerve receptors exactly as with the intake of opioids (like morphine), causing the wheel and food addiction, becoming a possible cause of overweight. Just to combat this disease, Yale University created the Yale Food Addiction Scale, used by U.S. doctors in particular for the control of childhood obesity. The scale begins with a questionnaire and recognized among consumers who are at risk for overweight because of greater sensitivity to these substances and which are not enriched.
Eva Perasso
[source: corriere.it ]
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