You may have a "sixth sense" . . . for calories

In experiments with mice, researchers found that the brain can sense the calories in food, independent of the taste mechanism. More here.

After researchers genetically altered mice to make them "sweet-blind," lacking taste receptors,

the sweet-blind mice showed a preference for calorie-containing sugar water that did not depend on their ability to taste, but on the calorie content.

(whisper) I see dead people. And calories.