Satisfy Your Appetite Through Smell

Satisfy Your Appetite Through Smell

Smelling certain things can affect your appetite.

Smelling food can make you hungry, hungrier, or may even satisfy your hunger.

According to Dr. Alan Hirsch, the neurological director of the Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation, smelling certain food items can fool the brain into thinking the appetite has been satisfied.

Dr. Hirsch researched scent and hunger with a group of medical students who were given vials of favorable food aromas to sniff when they felt hungry.

Some of them lost weight, so he then researched over 3000 people who were overweight.

These folks were told not to change what they ate or their exercise patterns. They were instructed to sniff inhalers when they felt hungry. These inhalers contained the smell of either banana, green apple, or peppermint.

After six months most people lost weight – some people even lost up to 100 pounds. The average weight loss was 4.7 pounds a month.

Dr. Hirsch is the author of “Dr. Hirsch’s Guide to Scentsational Weight Loss” (Element Books, $19.95) in which he explains how the olfactory sense (the sense of smell) works and how it can be used for weight loss.

Dr. Hirsch is also the expert that large corporations hire when they want to use scent to sell.

Personally, I am curious to know if these scents are synthetic or authentic.

My guess is that they are synthetic based on the research that I have done on Dr. Hirsch’s work.

If you are interested in this topic make sure you check out the essential oil video tip below. I am showing you how to make your own “sniffer” with organic peppermint essential oil!

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