A Summary of In Vitro and In Vivo Studies Evaluating the Impact of E-Cigarette Exposure on Living Organisms and the Environment Worldwide use of electronic cigarettes has been rapidly expanding over recent years, but the long-term effect of e-cigarette vapor exposure on human health... Merecz...
Anorexia is a medical term for a loss of appetite. While the term in non-scientific publications is often used interchangeably with anorexia nervosa, many possible causes exist for a loss of appeti...
“There are altogether different things going on when it comes to smell and taste loss for COVID-19 patients, compared to those with a bad cold,” Carl Philpott, the lead researcher and a professor at the University of East Anglia’s Norwich Medical School, said in a press release. “It...
Loss of appetite that occurs with age, the anorexia of aging, has been defined by Morley and Silver [5] as “the physiological decrease in food intake occurring to counterbalance reduced physically activity and lower metabolic rate, not compensated in the long term.” ...
What can you do if you're experiencing long-term loss of taste and smell? Datta said that smell training, "where you take a set of familiar odors and you repeatedly expose yourself to those odors," may improve a patient's "ability to associate an odor with a perception." ...
the causes of loss of smell and taste can be long term or even permanent. This does not always mean that it is serious. For example, the sense of taste and smell diminishes with age. However, there are instances where the loss of taste and smell may be symptoms of serious and even li...
The insular cortex (IC) is an important forebrain structure involved in pain perception and taste memory formation. Using a 64-channel multi-electrode array system, we recently identified and characterized two major forms of synaptic plasticity in the adult mouse IC: long-term potentiation (LTP) ...
Low energy diets (LED) achieve rapid BW loss and a parallel improvement in multiple metabolic markers [3], with individuals able to successfully maintain BW loss long-term and likely to achieve the most favourable outcomes [4]. Regulation of appetite control may be key to this since successful...
Olfaction is associated with taste [8] and influences meal satisfaction and nutritional status [9,10]. The impact of changes in olfactory function on postoperative weight loss in gastric cancer patients after gastrectomy is still unknown. Furthermore, it is necessary to clarify the frequency and ...
“The best diet is one that is sustainable and consistent in the long term for you,” explains Castro. The quality of the food you use to fuel your body is key, and it’s important to include “whole foods” in your diet and have protein, fat, and fiber (carbohydrates) on your plat...