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Bariatric surgery alters food preference and hedonic response, reducing the appeal of high-calorie, high-sugar foods and increasing preference for low-fat foods, which contributes to sustained weight loss.
After surgery, your brain's reward system for food changes. You may naturally find high-sugar and high-fat foods less appealing, which helps you stick to a healthier diet. This is a biological shift, not just willpower.
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Late after surgery, these animals exhibit a change in preference from a high-fat, high-sugar diet to a normal chow diet... RYGB leads to a shift in hedonic evaluation, favouring low- over high-calorie foods and restores obesity-induced alterations in ‘liking’ and ‘wanting’.
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Based on multiple animal studies and some human data presented in the symposium.
Source
Could the mechanisms of bariatric surgery hold the key for novel therapies?: report from a Pennington Scientific Symposium
Charmaine S. Tam et al. · Obesity Reviews · 2011
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