How the Five Senses Affect Healthy Aging What was that? You haven’t heard that hearing affects your nutritional status? You haven’t seen how sight can affect it too? While these two statements are both true, they are just two of the senses that affect how we eat; in fact, all five senses play a role in healthy aging. Taste, vision, hearing, touch, and sense of smell altogether make up the stimuli that affect how our bodies react to food and to our relationship with food, whic