Would you be able to restrain yourself from eating too much?

What if suddenly, your favorite food, a food that’s currently known for being high in calories, carbs, or fat, or all of the above (like cheese or chocolate or linguini Alfredo, or Scotch) would now have the opposite effect on your weight? If you ate too much of it, you would lose dangerous amounts of weight, and ultimately, if you ate one bite too much of this food, it could kill you. Would you still eat too much of it like you do now (if you already eat too much of it now) or would you try to cut back on it, or even eliminate this food from your diet?

Would the amount of this food that you eat change, if you knew it to cause dramatic and dangerous weight loss, as opposed to it causing dramatic weight gain, like it most likely does now, and the possibility of eating it leading to an untimely death?

Of course this is all hypothetical, because as far as I know, there aren’t any nachos or Funnyons out there, right now, that are going to cause dramatic weight loss.

The only thing I can think of that is somewhat similar, is when they introduced Olestra, which was supposed to keep you from absorbing as much of the fat in certain snack foods like potato chips, but then when they found out that some of the side effects included abdominal cramps, loose stools, and anal leakage, the product lost its appeal. I’m guessing that there were a few people who still gorged themselves on the Olestra infused chips, even when they found out about the possible side effects.

Would you be able to change your eating habits if you knew that your favorite treat could cause you a potentially life threatening weight loss?