title: [Taste perception in fasting overweight patients].
abstract: In 20 patients with a heavy overweight in the course of a fasting cure at 5 different moments gustation tests were carried out: in satiated state, in the acute fasting state and during the building-up phase. It could be proved that the thresholds in the acute fasting state are significantly lower than in the satiated state. Also in the building-up phase this tendency is pointed at. An efferent influence on the receptors evoked by hunger is discussed as cause. A direct relation between the change of the gustation sensitivity and individual metabolic parameters did, however, not develop under the experimental conditions given.
mesh_terms: D004038:Diet, Reducing / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D006815:Hunger; D009765:Obesity / Q000178:diet therapy / Q000523:psychology*; D012684:Sensory Thresholds; D013649:Taste
vernacular_title: Schmeckvermögen im Hungerzustand bei Ubergewicht.