Dear MEL Topic Readers,
How bad smells affect your health
Aroma, smell, or odour? In the kitchen, you smell when food is being
cooked. At the table, you enjoy the aroma from the dish. In the garbage, you
sense the odour of the leftover food. The sense of smell, or olfaction, detects
airborne odorant molecules, allowing us to identify odors, influence emotions,
and trigger memories. Indeed, smell doesn’t just detect threats, but it also affects
our lives in many ways. The aroma of wine, tea, or coffee provides a pleasant
feeling and expectations before and during tasting. However, when you don’t
smell well because of a stuffy or runny nose, you don’t enjoy the aroma or
taste of the food you eat as much. Also, while the smell of fresh air, plants,
and nature often refreshes your mind, odor pollution caused by industrial processes,
sewage, waste disposal, and animal farms often affects health and well-being. Along
with other senses like sight, hearing, taste, and touch, smell plays a vital
role in our safety, health, and well-being. By the way, it is more influential
for dogs as they distinguish almost everything by their hyper-sensitive olfactory
system.
Read the article and learn about the effects of smell on our lives.
