Stick Out Your Tongue to Weight Loss!

View Enchanting Picture of Taste Bud Locations

What's the first thing that your good old doctor says once you hop onto that cold, steel table? After asking, "Do you have health insurance?" doc then asks, "Can you stick out your tongue for me?"

Why? Because the tongue tells all, literally. Another tongue-twister is that the tongue can actually be one of your best weapons for weight loss.

To get a better grip of the importance of the tongue, let's peek in on Dieter Jack and Dieter Jill who have just sat down to a low calorie, roasted chicken, roasted veggie Diet Feast after taking a short walk up a tall hill.

Dieter Jack: "This meal tastes like shiitake mushrooms gone bad!"

Dieter Jill: "What's wrong with you? You didn't fall down and crack your crown again, did you? This is delicious! I can't believe I'm on a diet!"

Fed up but still hungry, Dieter Jack searches through his hidden stash of junk food that he had intended to toss out later that month.

Dieter Jack: "What's this? A chocolate cupcake? Yippie!" he yells out, just managing to rip off the wrapper before popping the cupcake into his mouth.

Dieter Jack: "YUCK! This cupcake tastes worse than lunch!" and then he abruptly sneezes and reaches for a lotion-laced tissue as he ponders, "Will I ever get over these springtime allergies?"

Allergies? Hum....could it be that Dieter Jack's sense of taste is a bit broken due to his sense of smell? My brain bone's connected to my nose bone and my nose bone's connected to my tongue bone?

Oh yes! Our sense of smell and taste are closely connected - much like a partnership. When one partner is out of sinc, the partnership often becomes a sinking ship and the partner then parts with their partner.

Such is the sense of taste. When the old sniffer is out of sinc, the sense of taste may be distorted or departed. More about this later - but our point is to illustrate the importance of achieving a healthy sense of taste - dieting or not. A sense of taste brings more enchantment to our lives, as food is an embedded part of life - something that we can never escape alive, and the central reason why it's so hard to lose weight and keep it off.

I Smell Weight Loss - Scents enhance everything from libido to appetite. Just the smell of fresh bread baking or hot buttered popcorn popping can kick in our Feasting Desire.

The Taste Buds - Location, Location, Location

The human tongue contains 'there or about' 10,000 taste buds that are located chiefly on the tongue with a few scattered about in the throat and palate.

How Food Transforms Into Tasty or Untasty

Foods - both liquids and solids, contain chemicals;

Saliva in the mouth dissolves chemicals;

Dissolved chemicals are absorbed by the tongue pores which are surrounded by taste buds (ie taste receptors);

Taste buds notify the brain via nerves.

Picture of Taste Buds

Let's enlist the help of Beautiful Bertha to show us where the taste buds are located. Are you ready, Bertha?

No? What do you mean, no? Ahhh, come on, Bertha. Open wide and let us see that beautiful tongue of yours. Nothing to be shy about. Okay? That's a girl. Now open wide?

Lovely! All but the gingerbread boy......which of course, is our Sweet Taste Bud area. Thank you, Bertha. (No wonder Bertha didn't want to open her mouth....)

Things that Impact Taste

Anosmia - A disorder that involves the sense of smell and may involve partial or complete loss of smell which may be temporary or permanent. The following conditions connected with Anosmia may distort our sense of smell/sense of taste sensations:

smoking

cold, flu

allergies, hay fever

olfactory nerve damage

certain medications, psychological disorders, medical disorders such as epilepsy, neurological disorders

poor dental health, carries, mouth diseases

So if you're finding your diet a bit tasteless, investigate and get that tongue wagging happily again because: "A happy diet is a happy diet!"

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