If you’re a cookie fiend, can’t resist meat, cheese or creamy salad dressings, haven’t munched broccoli since 1986 and are not sufferin’ succotash, you may be a supertaster. A new Stanford University study found that at least 30 percent of us are supertasters. We dislike bitter flavors and love sweets. And half of STs came into the world that way. The rest? Well, repeat exposure to added sugars, red meat and fatty flavors ruins your ability to appreciate the delicious goodness in veggies, 100 percent whole grains and lean protein.
Supertasting leads to super-sized health problems: Your risk for metabolic syndrome, obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer goes way up. And so does the likelihood that you have high blood pressure, an oversize waistline, higher-than-healthy blood sugar levels, low levels of good HDL cholesterol and high triglycerides.
