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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?
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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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