Enhanced Sweet Taste: Endocannabinoids Act Directly on Tongue Taste Receptors

These researchers must be on drugs.

"New findings from the Monell Center and Kyushu University in Japan report that endocannabinoids act directly on taste receptors on the tongue to enhance sweet taste.

'Our taste cells may be more involved in regulating our appetites than we had previously known,' said study author Robert Margolskee, M.D., Ph.D., a Monell molecular biologist. 'Better understanding of the driving forces for eating and overeating could lead to interventions to stem the burgeoning rise in obesity and related diseases.'

Endocannabinoids are substances similar to THC, the active ingredient in marijuana. Produced in the brain and body, they bind with cannabinoid receptors to help regulate appetite and many other processes involved in health and disease."

Wrongo, friend.

The only interventions needed for fatsos are self-control and leaving the rest of us out of it or the forms of mortality that accompany the choice to be overweight/obese.