Study Using Mice Finds Obesity Robs The Tongue Of Its Taste Buds

LAURAN NEERGAARD, Associated Press, The Columbian
Tue, 03/20/2018 - 9:56pm

WASHINGTON — Packing on pounds seems to dull people’s sense of taste, and puzzled researchers turned to mice to figure out why: Obesity, they found, can rob the tongue of taste buds. If Tuesday’s findings pan out, “this could be a whole new kind of target in treating obesity,” said Cornell University food scientist Robin Dando, whose lab led the research.

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