Study Offers Clues to Why People Overeat(NYtimes)

It is a problem that we live that cannot be overlooked even in Japan.
It circulates like seem being natural the gastronomic culture in the United States,
too in Japan today. Recently,
it often hears of the sickness called a metabolic syndrome.
When living in the future,
it thinks the review of the lifestyle to be a thing necessary for maintaining our health.



obese/肥満体
A new study suggests that obese people have a different physiological response to food: they continue to salivate longer in response to a new taste than do people of normal weight.


decline/衰退
Saliva production tends to decline in most people once they’ve gotten used to the taste of a certain food and had enough of it.


author/作者
a study author and assistant professor of research at The Miriam Hospital in Providence, R.I.


bariatric /肥満学の
all of whom were candidates for bariatric surgery, the decline in saliva in response to a stimulus — in this case


habituation /常用癖
It suggests that this habituation process is impaired in people who are obese.


sensitive /敏感
They’re not as sensitive to those feelings of fullness, and as a result, they continue to eat longer," he added.


comparison/比較
researchers recruited 34 obese patients who were candidates for bariatric surgery and 18 people of normal weight for comparison.


measuring /測定
Then, after measuring the baseline levels of saliva by placing a small amount of water on the volunteers’ tongues

stimulus/ 刺激
Although the groups did not differ in their baseline responses to the water stimulus or in their initial responses to the lemon juice


response/応答
But he noted it is not clear whether the slower habituation response is a cause of obesity or a feature of it.




参考サイト：http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/10/health/10eating.html?hpw