The scientific secrets underpinning that awful reality about
potato chips — eat one and you’re apt to scarf ’em all down — began coming out
of the bag today in research presented at the 245th National Meeting &
Exposition of the American Chemical Society, the world’s largest scientific
society. The meeting, which news media have termed “The World Series of
Science,” features almost 12,000 presentations on new discoveries and other
topics. It continues here through today.
Tobias Hoch, Ph.D., who conducted the study, said the
results shed light on the causes of a condition called “hedonic hyperphagia”
that plagues hundreds of millions of people around the world.