Craving fried foods… blame it on your taste buds :)

Good news, it may not be your fault that you have a craving for fat foods! and one day you might be able to rid yourself of it! A study done on rodents and published in Journal of Clinical Investigation showed that rats with normal taste buds show an inclination for fatty foods as oppose to rats with some of their fat receptors removed (CD36 receptor which is found in tissues that store fat). The authors of the study do NOT know if this taste bud exists in humans, but if it does, it can be one small factor in explaining why some people are more susceptible to weight gain than others.