Why do food taste so good?
randolfe
27 Mar 2004
Don't ask me. I have signed up for the calorie restricted postings and have come in for some hard times since I see being hungry all the time just to live longer as a very difficult choice.
I think researchers believe we like fattening foods because our technology has outrun our biology. Animals like to overeat because "in nature" they might have periods with little or no food and need that layer of fat to see them through.
Unfortunately, we humans are not like bears. We don't go to sleep for a few months and have all that fat melt away while we sleep. Now, "that" would be an interesting new fad: the "sleep-away-your-fat" diet.
Until then, we have to try satisfying ourselves with "no fat" cheeses, "fat free" bolonga, "fat free" mayonaise, etc. I gave up on donuts long ago. They haven't come up with non-fattening donuts yet. When they do, they are likely to be like the non-fattening potato chips which give you terrible indigestion.
I have been on a diet all my life. I somehow suspect Charles DeGaulle had the right idea. At the age of 88, he had friends worried because he had gained about 50 pounds. A few months later, he was dead. He ate himself to death, I suppose. Now, that is one form of "self-destruction" which actually sounds "attractive" (philosophically-not physically). Actually, if we can believe our current health experts, it is the most popular form of self-destruction in the country today. It's other name is obesity.
I have a very good friend who weighs over 400 pounds, is nearly sixty years of age and has terrible health problems. She just refuses to go on a diet and lose weight. I doubt she will be with us much longer.
Did you know that there is a "Gargantuan Casket Company" that is doing a booming business? Sometimes, families have to pay for two gravesites instead of one. The most important to undertakers these days is the width of a casket that a hearst can hold. Even crematoriums sometimes charge extra for large bodies.
Death looms large in this "bigger than ever" world. Makes me think the CR folks should picket a "Dunkin Donuts" shop somewhere. Now, that would make a news story. (ha)
I think researchers believe we like fattening foods because our technology has outrun our biology. Animals like to overeat because "in nature" they might have periods with little or no food and need that layer of fat to see them through.
Unfortunately, we humans are not like bears. We don't go to sleep for a few months and have all that fat melt away while we sleep. Now, "that" would be an interesting new fad: the "sleep-away-your-fat" diet.
Until then, we have to try satisfying ourselves with "no fat" cheeses, "fat free" bolonga, "fat free" mayonaise, etc. I gave up on donuts long ago. They haven't come up with non-fattening donuts yet. When they do, they are likely to be like the non-fattening potato chips which give you terrible indigestion.
I have been on a diet all my life. I somehow suspect Charles DeGaulle had the right idea. At the age of 88, he had friends worried because he had gained about 50 pounds. A few months later, he was dead. He ate himself to death, I suppose. Now, that is one form of "self-destruction" which actually sounds "attractive" (philosophically-not physically). Actually, if we can believe our current health experts, it is the most popular form of self-destruction in the country today. It's other name is obesity.
I have a very good friend who weighs over 400 pounds, is nearly sixty years of age and has terrible health problems. She just refuses to go on a diet and lose weight. I doubt she will be with us much longer.
Did you know that there is a "Gargantuan Casket Company" that is doing a booming business? Sometimes, families have to pay for two gravesites instead of one. The most important to undertakers these days is the width of a casket that a hearst can hold. Even crematoriums sometimes charge extra for large bodies.
Death looms large in this "bigger than ever" world. Makes me think the CR folks should picket a "Dunkin Donuts" shop somewhere. Now, that would make a news story. (ha)
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kurdishfella
02 Feb 2023
people get attached to food not because of taste but because of the nutrition that provides the health benefit which makes them feel good.
also all the chemicals ruined our taste buds to liken such and mentally
