According to studies conducted in University of California, Berkley, the odour of what we eat can play a crucial role in how the body deals with calories.
The findings, published in the journal Scientific Reports, show that women who have a strong sense of small may have a thriving social life due to better physical and mental health.
The sense of smell is very significant to our psyche - the aroma of plants, spices and herbs have a healing and therapeutic effect.
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You may have heard that our perception of flavour is governed by our sense of smell, but did you realise quite how sophisticated a palate your nose really has?One of the most bandied-about statistics regarding ...
A specialised area of the mosquito brain mixes tastes with smells to create unique flavours, scientists have revealed, suggesting the development of a powerful odourant that can make "human flavour" repulsive to malaria-bearing species.
Believe it or not! Humans can smell whether the food on the dining table or in a restaurant is low or high on fat. New research reveals humans can use the sense of smell to ...
The researchers tested several odours in lab worm C. elegans and discovered that only certain scents dynamically regulate fat mobilisation by interacting with specific olfactory neurons through specific receptors.
For everyone out there thinking that maybe it's just you who loses their ability to taste when sick, we're here to tell you that you're not alone. Here's why food tastes different when you're suffering ...
For long, health experts have regarded fats as major culprits in perpetrating various lifestyle diseases like obesity, heart disease, diabetes etc. A previous study has even linked a high fat diet with an increased risk ...