Sorry, But Not Smelling Doesn't Make You Lost Weight
"The Doctors," that smug-Dr.-Phil show, was on in the background this morning and one of their segments caught my eye. Some woman asked if she plugged her nose while she was eating, would she eat less. In other words, does your sense of smell affect how much you eat? They did a cute little demo of blindfolding her and clipping her nose, then fed her bits of food and tried to get her to identify them. She only guessed potato right, but even with her sense of smell cut off, she still knew when the taste was a muffin. "That's go-ooo-od," she said. So, here's the deal. Our sense of smell is very important to our eating habits, but probably not in the way you think. A friend recently lost his sense of smell from using too much nasal spray and now he eats everything he can get his hands on, hoping desperately to get a taste of some thing. But those of us who have noses who work can be thankful that they allow us to savor our food, to pick out the swe...