Aromatherapy seems to be the most promising unconventional method in the battle with the weight, mostly because smell is a very important component of taste, which directly relates to eating and satiety.
Alan Hirsch, a neurologist and psychiatrist at the Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation made a research in this domain discovering that specific aromas can deprogram overweight people whose normal response to the smell of rich foods like chocolate or pizza or ice-cream is to become hungry and overeat.
Another study was performed at St. George’s Hospital in London, testing a skin aroma patch that released the aroma of vanilla to help reduce cravings for high-calorie sweet foods and drinks.
The participants on this study lost about 4 1/2 pounds in four weeks. The researchers considered that very sweet smells release serotonin which is a brain chemical that makes you feel good similar to the effects of chocolate, a free calories chocolate.
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