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| quote: | Originally posted by Zild
Sure you can eat rice and tuna for $4 a day if you just happen to love the way cardboard tastes. |
Or if you can recognize the fact that, regardless of what flavor or taste the food you eat has, it's all going to get turned into the same energy or basic buildings blocks anyways.
Our physical requirements for food are about survival. Our body doesn't care whether 1000 calories worth of food tastes good or bad, it only cares that it has those calories available for energy or repairs.
Our mental requirements are quite different though and I like what Halc posted:
| quote: | Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
Food is awesome. It tastes great when made properly and some of it is really quite pleasing to our senses - there's an entire culture of food out there within the consumer culture - in fact, one might even argue that cuisine is the complete basis for consumerism in the first place. Like almost every 'civilised' endeavour, mere survival is not enough. It must be pleasing to our senses as well as our cultural sensibilities. It just so happens that western nations tend to hold consumerism quite high, and so the transmission of solipsistic behaviour does not cease, especially when it is paraded about as something "necessary" by those with everything to gain by making everyone gain, so to speak. |
It's true. It's just a shame that so many people get caught up in the attraction of food and lose sight of the survival aspect of it. I don't mean to say that it's not good to enjoy food, I do just as much as anyone but, if I have to eat chicken & rice then so be it. Mentally, I can override my thought of 'Pizza is so much better.'
My belief is that it starts when we are kids. Think of common kid foods. When you go to a restuarant and look at the kid's menu what's on there? Mac & cheese, tater tots, hot dogs, chicken nuggets. WTF! Health food smorgasbord right there! I remember as a kid eating stuff like grilled cheese, PB&J, Fruity Pebbles, all kinds of shit. It was delicious yes but, did I need it to survive? Absolutely not. But it lays the groundwork for the rest of our lives, the idea that food should be enjoyable.
My belief is that overweight people(while some do have a genetic disposition) generally do not realize exactly how bad the food they eat is. They don't understand the correlation of fat & sugar and calories and the potential damage they can do to the body in excess. Or they do understand it to a certain extent but, they've always believed that 'food should be tasty' and they won't look past that to search for healthy alternatives. And how can you blame them? That's basically what they've been taught since they were kids.
Wow that turned out alot longer than I meant it to. But yeah, all that coming from a former fat kid. 
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