Get ready, because in this post, I’m going to teach you how to develop a heightened sense of taste and hearing.
Heighten your sense of taste
I took my young’uns on a 13 hour road trip to see family. Before the trip I packed a cooler full of good, healthy things to eat. Yogurts, veggies and fruits, meat and cheese for sandwiches, and a yummy trail mix for snacking. It was pretty awesome. We would eat the snacks on the road and stop when people wanted a meal. We’d sit with the back door of the minivan open and eat our food.
After a fun and exhausting week of visiting family, it was time to make the trip home. I didn’t have the energy or time to do the same preparation for the return trip, so we ate fast food at every stop.
I rarely eat fast food, like hardly ever. But on this trip, I ate fast food 3 times that day, and when I got home my tongue was swollen from all the salt in the food I had eaten. I couldn’t taste food for the next 3 days. I couldn’t taste the subtle flavors in my normal fare, and I started to worry that I would never be able to taste food again.
I was relieved that after a few days my spidey sense of taste returned, and I could once again enjoy the delicate flavors in food, like the sweetness of fruit or the earthiness of vegetables.
Heighten your sense of hearing
At work, I hire folks who have to answer the phones, and a lot of them can’t hear on the phone. They don’t take accurate messages and have trouble taking orders because they can’t hear what people say. They turn the volume on the handset up as high as it will go. This surprises me because I have to turn the volume down to the lowest setting or I feel like customers are yelling in my ear. We have a small staff, and I’ve had 3 people with this problem.
I’m not a doctor, and I don’t play one on the Internet, but I would venture to say that some food we eat, my suspicion is dairy products, mess with our hearing.
Your other senses
I haven’t noticed a heightened sense of sight, touch or smell, but if I’ll let you know if I do. And if you want to develop your spidey senses, start by eating clean.
Take action
Eating salt and grease laden food is a downward spiral. It’s like we’re building a tolerance to salt/grease and will need more and more to even be able to taste our food. We’ve all seen the guy who salts his food until he can see the salt. That ain’t healthy.
If you want your kids to enjoy fruits and veggies, don’t feed them fast food, because afterward, they might not even be able to taste the vegetables.
Knowing what foods to eat can be overwhelming, but this is a great place to start. If you haven’t already, stop eating fast food. I promise, you’ll enjoy the other food in your life more.
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