Doctors say maintaining a healthy tongue color means eating a balanced diet, not using tobacco products, drinking plenty of water and visiting a dentist regularly.

Cleaning your tongue only takes around 10–15 seconds, but it's is a good way to check in with your health and can easily be incorporated into your teeth brushing routine.

The healthy baseline. Before interpreting changes, you need to know what a healthy tongue looks like. Ideally, your tongue should be medium pink, slightly moist, and covered with tiny bumps called ...

Cleaning your tongue only takes around 10-15 seconds, but it’s is a good way to check in with your health and can easily be incorporated into your teeth brushing routine.

'A healthy tongue is pink in colour with a slightly rough surface,' Sarah Ramage, clinical director at Bupa, said. 'What gives it this texture are the tiny bumps on top, called papillae.' ...

By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, CNN (CNN) — Editor’s note: Jocelyn Solis-Moreira is a New York-based freelance health and science journalist.If you can’t ...

What your tongue can tell you about your health 01:39 MIAMI - You know to check your skin for cancer, do self-breast exams, and monitor things like heart rate, blood sugar, or blood pressure.

A sore throat, loss of taste, and a burning tongue are telltale signs something is wrong. But the culprit might surprise you. These symptoms can be caused by candidiasis of the mouth—also known as ...

A dry mouth is common among people with Type 2 diabetes as high blood sugar reduces saliva production. It could also be a ...