Scientists can determine someone’s favorite food (31) their body shape. They have discovered that the arrangement of taste buds on the tongue (32) for different body types. The scientists team (33) 1000 British adults and divided them into three (34) recognized body types: ectomorphs, endomorphs and mesomorphs. They determined that a person’s body type indicated (35) they were likely to have the most taste buds—on the sweet, bitter (36) salty areas of their tongue.
The study showed that ectomorphs who (37) one in three of the population, usually have a small (38) shape, and have a sweet (39) but hate bitter foods. Mesomorphs, who make up 20% of the population, usually have a muscular shape and prefer salty or bitter foods (40) dislike sweet foods. Half the British population are endomorphs with soft, (41) bodies, and they like most foods. The findings showed that for two in three people food (42) was a physiological (43) a psychological choice.
Body shape expert Simon Bradshaw, who (44) charges of this team, said, "It appears that (45) (46) looking at an individual’s body shape we can make (47) about their taste preferences. " (48) Catherine Collins, a member of the British Dietetic Association said, "It is difficult to say whether our body shape dictates the food we like, (49) the food we like dictates our body shape. " It (50) to reason people who prefer most types of foods will be fatter and people who are the endomorph shape tend to find it more difficult to lose weight.