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Detecting Fat Content of Food from a Distance: Olfactory-Based Fat Discrimination in Humans

The desire to consume high volumes of fat is thought to originate from an evolutionary pressure to hoard calories, and fat is among the few energy sources that we can store over a longer time period. From an ecological perspective, however, it would be beneficial to detect fat from a distance, befor...

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Autores principales: Boesveldt, Sanne, Lundström, Johan N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3899094/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24465822
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0085977