Secret Behind Tongue Pain

So far, the public only knew that a feeling is created when food touches the tongue and through the esophagus. But there were other scientific facts about how the body recognizes a taste.

Pain is not just about how the food is on the tongue, but there is a scientific fact that develops how a person likes a taste and a preference in choosing a particular food.

Here are some scientific facts about food that might help one's way of thinking expressed by Gary Beauchamp, a biologist from the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, as quoted by CNN on Monday (5/16/2011), namely:

Map of taste on the tongue is not always right
Everyone already knows that the sweet taste on the tongue is located on the front, in addition to salty and bitter at the end of the base. But actually there is no clear map of the sensitivity of a taste on the tongue, and some people who have suffered cuts permanent tongue can feel a sense.

The nose can find a sense of
Scientists reveal that most of the recognized sense of someone actually comes from smell. This is because the aroma is inhaled through the nose to the back of the throat and will give the sensation of an aroma and flavor.

Particular taste can evoke nostalgia
Many people who have strong memories of going to a particular taste from childhood, so when he got the taste or smell of it will make it nostalgic to the past. This is due to a direct anatomical relationship between odor and emotion than the other senses.

One can reduce the fat and salt without compromising taste
Fat and salt are known to make a meal to be delicious and tasty, but on the other side of the two materials can cause molecular damage to blood vessels.

Someone could use broth, or other spices to enhance flavor. And begin to not use salt at every meal, because of some certain foodstuffs already produces sodium.

Children follow the mother's appetite
If a pregnant woman would be possible to transfer a certain taste preferences on the baby, because the fetus can detect and remember the feeling he gets until he was born. This also happens when the mother gives milk to her baby. This condition indicates that the child's appetite may begin in the womb and follow his mother.

Doctors Use Twitter to Save the Patient

HONG KONG - When the earthquake and tsunami hit Japan in March last, the doctors there use Twitter to help his patients.

The doctors through his Twitter account told to the patient where to save themselves, because the telephone network to die. Similarly, as quoted by Reuters on Friday (05/13/2011).

In a letter published in The Lancet, doctors and Keiichi Fukuda Yuichi Tamura said they were sending their tweets into 60 patients, by telling where to look for drugs at a nearby location. This is done by Tamura and Fukuda because they realized that the telephone network is damaged.

"Patients are our tweets are those who suffer from rare diseases and hospitals that provide the medicine is also very rare," said Dr. Tamura of the cardiology section at the Keio University School Of Medicine, Tokyo.

"We live to tweet to 60 patients and we'd retweet follower of his more than 100 times. Then there are some patients who can not reach hospitals because they itnggal places affected by the earthquake, then we bring the medicine directly to them through the car or helicopter, "said Tamura and Fukuda in their letter.

Short message services (SMS) and Internet social media are now often used by medical personnel around the world to be able to serve their patients with them.