Alan C. Spector, James C. Smith and Glee R. Hollander Radiation-induced taste aversion has been suggested to possibly play a role in the dietary difficulties observed in some radiotherapy patients. In ...

There are foods we like, their foods we could eat based on situations and their foods we cannot stand. This adverse reaction to certain foods when encountering food due to adverse post ingestion ...

When chicken eggs injected with 20-25 mg of emetine dihydrochloride were distributed along 3 different 0.7-1.0-km transects, mammalian predators that had been feeding on untreated eggs developed a ...

Taste-recognition memory — the ability to identify a taste and relate it to past consequences of its ingestion — is extremely important from an evolutionary point of view. There are two forms of taste ...

GLP-1, a glucagon-like peptide-1 secreted in the small intestine, promotes insulin production in the pancreas, thereby ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American After coexisting for thousands of years, ...