Fading ability to taste iron raises health concerns for people over age 50

Wednesday, August 10, 2011 - 10:30 in Health & Medicine

People lose the ability to detect the taste of iron in drinking water with advancing age, raising concern that older people may be at risk for an unhealthy over-exposure to iron, engineers are reporting.

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