Forget counting carbs and calories. Obesity researcher Dr. David Katz says the way to lose weight is to limit flavors.

Katz, director of Yale University's Prevention Research Center, says people stop eating when the brain's appetite center registers "full." But eating lots of flavors promotes overeating because different sensors must register full for appetite to subside.

The typical American diet "is a mad cacophony of flavors," Katz said in late January during a book-tour stop in Chicago.

Instead, Katz advocates flavor-themed meals - an apple day, for example, or a sesame day, even an occasional chocolate day.

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