{"id":429,"date":"2010-10-29T15:51:40","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T15:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterpatedds.com\/?p=429"},"modified":"2010-10-29T15:51:40","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T15:51:40","slug":"dont-neglect-your-tongue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patedds.com\/blog\/dont-neglect-your-tongue\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Neglect Your\u00a0Tongue!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patedds.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/guy-with-tongue.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-470\" style=\"border:3px solid black;margin-top:3px;margin-bottom:3px;\" title=\"guy with tongue\" src=\"https:\/\/www.patedds.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/guy-with-tongue.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.patedds.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/guy-with-tongue.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.patedds.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/guy-with-tongue-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>What\u2019s the strongest and most flexible muscle in your body?\u00a0 It\u2019s your tongue!\u00a0 Your tongue is the only muscle that\u2019s attached only on one end. \u00a0It also has a unique print, just like your thumb \u2013 and it heals faster than any other body part. \u00a0The tongue has 9,000 taste buds and can sense four basic tastes: sweet, sour, bitter, and salty. \u00a0About 10% of your taste buds, though, are on your cheeks and palette.<\/p>\n<p>Can you curl your tongue in a u-shape? About 15% of people can\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Your tongue harbors HALF of the bacteria that live in your mouth. \u00a0If you have bad breath, brush your tongue or consider using a tongue scraper to gently remove bacteria and food particles from the surface of the tongue. \u00a0It can really help!<\/p>\n<p>And, according to <em><em>Guinness<\/em><\/em>, this is the\u00a0most difficult\u00a0tongue twister:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>The sixth sick sheik&#8217;s sixth sheep&#8217;s sick.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your tongue harbors half \u2013 HALF \u2013 of the bacteria that live in your mouth. If you have bad breath, brush your tongue or consider using a tongue scraper to gently remove bacteria and food particles from the surface of the tongue. It can really help!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[114,135,152,171,259,322,683,1030,1032],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patedds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patedds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patedds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patedds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patedds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patedds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patedds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patedds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patedds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}