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Tongue and taste buds. (Saurabh R. Patil/Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported via Wikimedia Commons)

Obesity May Dull Sense of Taste

March 23, 2018

A new study published in the journal PLOS Biology supports past research that suggests the more weight you gain the less you are able to taste the food you eat. The study, based on research with mice, suggests that obesity-driven inflammation actually reduced the number of their taste buds on their tongues. There are 50 […]

Dog drinking water (Natalla Lobato/Creative Commons)

Virginia Tech Researchers Learn How a Dog Drinks Water

December 14, 2015

Have you ever watched a dog drink water and wondered how he was able to quench his thirst from what appeared to be some rather sloppy and haphazard actions? Well, it turns out the parched pooches know exactly what they’re doing, and according to a new study by researchers at Virginia Tech, they’re actually executing […]

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