W: May I take your order now, sir
M: Thank you, but I’m waiting for someone to join me.
W: Hello, Sir. May I take your order now
M: Sorry, I haven’t decided yet. A friend of mine is coming.
M: Would it be OK to look at your spare loom now
W: Would you come here in 20 minutes We’re fight in the middle of dinner.
M: Would it be OK to look at your spare room now
W: Would you come here in 20 minutes We’re right in the middle of dinner.
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M: Can I take your order, please
M: Yes, A Maxi Quarter ponders for me, please. With chips.
W: Anything else, sir
M: A banana long coat, I think.
W: What would you like to drink with your meal
M: Can I have a beer
W: I’m sorry sir; we are not licensed to sell alcohol.
M: A cold milk then, please.
W: Ok, sir, please wait a minute.
Feeling anxious Your mood may actually change how your dinner tastes, making the bitter and salty flavors recede, according to new research. This link between the chemical balance in your brain and your sense of taste could one day help doctors to treat depression. There are currently no on-the-spot tests for deciding which medication will work best in individual patients with this condition. Researchers hope that a test based on flavor detection could help doctors to get more prescriptions right first time.
It has long been known that people who are depressed have lower-than-usual levels of the brain chemicals serotonin or noradrenaline, or in some cases both. Many also have a blunted sense of taste, which is presumably caused by changes in brain chemistry. To unpick the relationship between the two, Lucy Donaldson and her colleagues at the University of Bristol, UK, gave 20 healthy volunteers two antidepressant drugs, and checked their sensitivity to different tastes. T
A. Mood Makes Food Taste Different
B. Depressed People’s Moods
C. The Best Prescription for Depression
D. Mood and Food Taste
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