Is sense of smell linked to being fatter or thinner?

July 6, 2017

Would you be willing to give up the smell of fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies or a pizza right out of the oven if it meant slimming down?

A new study showed that mice that lost their sense of smell didn't gain weight even when they ate the same high-fat diet as mice that could smell and did gain weight.

The mice that retained their sense of smell packed on twice their normal weight while the smell-deficient mice didn't gain at all, scientists from the University of California, Berkeley, reported in the journal Cell Metabolism.

Read more: CBS | July 6th, 2017