Health
Healthy eating over the holidays
Between bountiful buffets and "food-pushing relatives," the winter holidays hold landmines for those trying to eat healthy.
Dec 19, 2019
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Diabetes
Gut taste mechanisms are abnormal in diabetes sufferers
(Medical Xpress)—Researchers at the University of Adelaide have discovered that the way the gut "tastes" sweet food may be defective in sufferers of type 2 diabetes, leading to problems with glucose uptake.
Aug 23, 2013
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Medical research
Researchers identify elusive taste stem cells
Scientists at the Monell Center have identified the location and certain genetic characteristics of taste stem cells on the tongue. The findings will facilitate techniques to grow and manipulate new functional taste cells ...
Feb 4, 2013
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Health
Caffeine tempers taste, triggering temptation for sweets
Caffeine, the widely consumed stimulant and igniter of sluggish mornings, has been found to temper taste buds temporarily, making food and drink seem less sweet, according to new Cornell University research.
Aug 24, 2017
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Health
Unraveling the enigma of salty taste detection
Public health efforts to reduce dietary sodium intake have been hindered by an incomplete understanding of the complex process by which humans and other mammals detect salty taste.
Feb 11, 2016
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Neuroscience
What happens when food first touches your tongue
A new study might explain why humans register some tastes more quickly than others, potentially due to each flavor's molecular size.
Jul 9, 2020
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Neuroscience
Your mouth helps you smell tasty foods
Why do certain foods smell good to us?
Feb 13, 2019
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Health
Dulled taste may prompt more calories on path to obesity
Cornell University food scientists have found that people with a diminished ability to taste food choose sweeter - and likely higher-calorie - fare. This could put people on the path to gaining weight.
Jul 28, 2017
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Medical research
Study suggests textbooks are wrong about how the tongue tastes things
Dr. Josephine Egan, senior investigator at the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Aging, in Baltimore, has conducted research revolving around the sense of taste. In her review, now published in The New ...
Neuroscience
Rewired taste system reveals how flavors move from tongue to brain
By tangling up bitter- and sweet-sensing cells on the tongues of mice, researchers have teased apart how the taste system wires itself. The results, from Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator Charles Zuker at ...
Aug 9, 2017
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