Live a Long Life? Thank Your Taste Buds
What if the way you tasted creme brulee could determine how long you live? Amazingly, a new study has found that, in fruit flies, taste buds appear to help promote a long, healthy life. Of course, we're not fruit flies. But they actually have a close resemblance to us. According to the University of North Carolina, fruit flies share 75% of the genes that cause disease in humans." Newswise.com reports that t aste buds "may in fact have a powerful role in a long and healthy life – at least for fruit flies, say two new studies that appear in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America." Researchers from the University of Michigan, Wayne State University and Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research in Switzerland found that suppressing the animal’s ability to taste its food –regardless of how much it actually eats – can significantly increase or decrease its length of life and potentially promote heal...