subject: Seven Flavors are Beneficial to Our Health [print this page] In our daily life, flavor can make us pleasant, and can be used to get rid of some peculiar flavors. However, do you know that different flavors have different efficacy. Flavor can transmit information to our brain through a variety of olfactory receptor. Some special flavors have the function to promote memory, improve mood, increase energy and other health care.
Green apple can inhibit our desire for snacks and can help lose weight. A research has found that let those people who are overweight smell banana, green apple can mint when they want to eat snacks, and the result shows that people who have taken part in this experiment have lost more weight than those who did not smell these fragrances.
The flavor of orange or lavender can calm down our emotion. A study in Austrian, the researchers have done a research, they divided people into two groups. One group smell the flavor of orange and the other smell the flavor of lavender. The result shows that compared with those people are not tested, people tested are less anxious, more positive and their moods are calmer.
The flavor of rosemary can help improve academic record. If you are too nervous when make a statement or begin a new work, you can have a try to smell the flavor of rosemary. A research made in Northumbria University in UK has shown that after smelling the flavor of rosemary the forty eight students who are tested make prominent scores in the memory test, and their alertness become high.
Peppermint can ease headaches. The researchers in New York University Medical Center have done a research and they found that spray lavender oil to the anaesthetic mask can reduce the amount of narcotic, and so does peppermint. Expert in U.S.A and German also found that mint or lavender can relieve headaches and it has the same effect with analgesic.
Essential oil can relieve menstrual pain. A research has proved that use essential oil to massage abdominal for fifteen minutes every day a week before menses can reduce the pain to fifty percent.
The scent of fresh citrus can keep us young. A study found that flavor of fresh citrus can keep us young. Compared with those people who did not take part in the test to smell the flavor of citrus, people involved in this test feel they are younger than those people.
