Obesity expert says limiting flavours helps weight loss

FORGET counting carbs and calories. Obesity researcher Dr David Katz says the way to lose weight is to limit flavours.

Dr Katz, director of Yale University’s Prevention Research Centre, says people stop eating when the brain’s appetite centre registers “full”. But eating lots of flavours promotes overeating because different sensors must register full for appetite to subside, he says.

The typical American diet “is a mad cacophony of flavours”, Dr Katz said this week.