Could Weight-Loss Surgery Change your Taste Buds?

First Posted: Apr 18, 2014 10:44 PM EDT
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Weight loss surgery can have dramatic results.  Not only can it cause significant weight loss, but it can also greatly decrease the risk of weight-related health issues. Yet a recent study conducted by researchers from the Leicester Royal Infirmary in the United Kingdom shows that it may also change your appetite and tastes.

Lead study author Lisa Graham of the infirmary examined answers from questionnaires that were sent to 103 people who had weight loss surgery, involving 33 questions regarding appetite, taste and sense of small. All of the patients received weight loss surgery at the University Hospitals of Leicester from 2000 to 2011.

Findings showed that around 97 percent of the participants stated that their appetites changed following surgery. Forty-two percent also said that their sense of smell was altered following the procedure while 73 percent felt that their taste buds changes from sweet to sour or vice versa.

"This study indicates that subjective changes in appetite, taste and smell are very common after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass," Graham concluded, via Medical Xpress.

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More information regarding the study can be found via the article "Taste, Smell and Appetite Change After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery, Obesity Surgery," was published in Obesity Surgery.

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