article_snippet: Looking at someone who is overweight or obese can alter our sense of smell to make the scent of the world around us appear less pleasant, scientists have found.
article_snippet: Researchers discovered viewing images of fat people caused participants in a study to rate odour samples as smelling worse - even though Researchers were actually fragrance free.
article_snippet: scientists believe the effect may be caused by inbuilt negative bias that many people have towards those who are overweight and obese.
article_snippet: Surprisingly scientists also found that those who had a higher BMI themselves tended to give the scent samples a lower rating.
article_snippet: This suggests that people who have their own weight problems are perhaps also the harshest critics of others who are fat.