The most amazing sense of the human body

Talking about senses of the human being is so amusing to me, I like this topic when it comes to the human body, so I will talk about my favourite one: the taste sense.

I want to start with the fact that the taste is so important to the happiness of people since I think everyone is in agreement with me when it’s about talking on how delicious and pleasuring eating can be!, because you know, who doesn’t really love eating? I want to list some of the illnesses that can alter this sense, they can be:

- Hypogeusia

- Ageusia

- Dysgeusia

                                     

- Etc…

The role of the taste sense is summarised as: when the taste cells are stimulated, they send messages to the brain through three specialised taste nerves. There, specific tastes are identified. Taste cells have receptors that respond to at least one of the five basic qualities of taste: sweet, sour or acid, bitter, salty and umami. The location of these cells is in the tongue and so, the size/ratio of the sense is very limited. Finally, you need to keep this sense healthy by visiting the dentist at least once a year, avoid the consumption of tobacco and alcohol because they diminish the sensitivity of the taste buds, brush your teeth after each meal and gently clean the tongue with the brush and toothpaste, etc.

Post Graduate Studies

After reading and investigating about the postgraduate courses that I could possibly take in the future based in the career that I am studying nowadays, I think I’d have a specific one in my mind till then… I am talking about the Diploma called “Management, Quality and Food Safety” because of the areas that this Diploma specializes in. I feel interested in some specific subjects, for example “Microbiology, Hygiene and Food Safety” and “Food Safety Management System” so I’d like to study them for a long time, specially if I’m going to study this diploma in another country, out of Chile, it would be so interesting to me and I’d definitely like to.

 If I could choose between many differents ways to  study, I think I’ll choose the blended system in order to experiment another different way of working and studying. If all of this works, and I still have the desire to keep studying and specializing more in other areas of my career, then I’d like to validate the subjects of this Diploma and  proceed to study and get the Master Degree called: “Master Degree with mention in Management, Quality and Food Safety”. I think it is really good to know about these things, I mean, possible postgraduates that you could take in a determinate moment of your life.

My future job

If I stop my routine and I try to think about what job I would like to get, the first image I get in my mind is a “future me” working on a company involved in the food industry and ascending positions at the work, so I think that’s the job I’d like to have in the near future as a food engineer, also I don’t think I’d have problems with working indoors at the company that I work at, so I prefer it that way. However, I would really like to travel to a lot of other places out of Chile to work at in my future life. When it comes to the salary, that doesn’t really matter to me, but it’s not like I don’t care about that aspect at all, so while I can have a not really low salary, I’ll be okay.

For now, I’m only focusing on my career so I can end my first academic year in good terms, I think I’m going to start thinking about a major when I’ll be more advanced in my study years. I also hope I can study another career in the future and hopefully on another country in order to enrich myself with culture of another people.

My favorite pet

My favorite pets are definitely dogs, particularly because of their loyalty and loveliness... I have a male dog that is called Toby, it's dog breed is "Poodle Toy" and his color is apricot. I still remember the day he arrived to my life as if it was yesterday! It was in 2014 when I was fourteen years old, my stepfather traveled for hours in order to get the dog, it was a little bit tiring but everything worthed it when Toby was already in our house. He was so small and so furry, I played with him for a long time and his company made me really happy and still makes me a really lucky person for having him, he is for sure one of my most important treasures of my life.

If I would had to choose any reason to say why I love my pet so much, it would be an endless list, but I will say that some of the most important to me are the company, the affection, his loyalty, his happiness at any moment I need it and his unconditional support to my person.