On 5 Feb 2006 14:19:53 -0800, "Sheldon" > wrote:

>
>J.Lef wrote:
>> I am not a large consumer of honey, but use honey in my daily
>>
>
>It's you. People are born with just so many taste buds. Actually they
>have many more prior to birth than after, and lose more than half of
>what remains within the first few years of life... and continue to lose
>taste buds throughout life at a pretty steady rate.
sheldon, Can you give a reference for this? I just did a little
research and found the statement that all of the taste buds are
replaced about every twelve days until we reach our 70's or 80's.
This would indicate that we still have our complete senseof taste
until late in life.
Thanks in advance.

If you are over
>thrity you have already lost all but a relatively few. This is why the
>elderly tend to have problems eating properly, not only does their
>sense of taste become profoundly diminished, their sense of smell
>too... sight and hearing as well. What makes you think you're any
>different? Whenever you see middle aged people depicted as
>professional tasters (coffee, chocolate, wine, beer, etc.) that's a
>total fraud... they no longer have what to taste with. When I see over
>fiftys sniffing, swishing, and slurping wine like the know what they're
>doing I laugh, it would need to be Listerine before they could say,
>especially the french, how can they sniff wine when they can't even
>smell their own aroma from not bathing for a year. hehe

Also, please give a good reference or documentation that the French do
not bathe.
>
>Sheldon