Posted on 10/18/2005 2:49:48 PM PDT by Mike Bates
EATING steak is a symbol of pent up anger, gorging on chips means you are stressed and filling up on cakes is a sure-fire sign that you are sexually frustrated. When it comes to betraying mood, it seems, you are what you eat.
A study has found that a person's choice of food is dictated by their state of mind and diners apparently seek out dishes to regulate how they feel.
Angry people turn to chewy foods while the sexually frustrated crave carbohydrate-rich biscuits and cakes.
Those under stress reach for salty snacks while people going through crises such as divorce tend to revert to the foods of childhood such as ice cream.
Jealous people often stack their plates indiscriminately - a consequence of having had to compete with siblings at the dinner table in childhood, say researchers.
The findings are the result of a US study of the eating habits of 500 people who kept diaries about their choices of meals.
Carried out as part of a study of addiction, it is thought to be the first to link individual foods with particular states of mind.
Cynthia Power, the Illinois-based psychotherapist behind the survey, said: "Food can be used to change feelings the person doesn't want to have.
"Only hard, crunchy mastication will suffice when someone needs to take out their anger.
"Alternatively, loneliness is artificially assuaged with bulky, fill-up-the stomach foods."
Whaaa, I never get picked for these studies!
I eat crunchy foods all the time and I am sexually frustrated. I guess I must be angry about it.
What do stupid psychotherapists with way too much freakin' time on their hands eat?
Mmmmmmmm ... gravy .... ;^)
I've found a glass of sherry and a cigarette go with almost every mood and circumstance...
Tofu is so misunderstood.
I agree, Tofu is misunderstood. Fried Tofu with Plum Sauce... mmmmmmmmm
That being said, there's nothing wrong with a big, fat, medium rare steak... mmmmmmmmmm
Hmmm.
Whenever I see Bill or Hillary, I get the urge to chew gum.
What could that mean???
I'll agree with Part 1, but pass on the steak. In fact, plum sauce would go with just about anything
You know a lot of people will tell you the Vegan diet is the diet God prescribed for Adam and Eve. Although it is necessary to take a multi-vitamin to get all the required nutrients I wouldn't say being vegan is much worse than a normal diet. Especially when you consider most people need a multi-vitamin no matter their diet to get the recommended amount of all nutrients.
Well, that's bad. I love cookies. Can't eat them because they are not on my food plan, but I love them!
They didn't mention chocolate. I wonder why?
In my obsessive eating days I could eat a half dozen at a time with no problem. Yipes??????
You should have told her you've been a vegan since the day you were born- so obviously your political views are enlightened.
LOL. I see you've met my sister!
Excellent additions.
overwhelming sense of guilt and desire to help others.
I would add: 'Help or control' others.
I'm a vegetarian, well-adjusted and healthy, with no particular guilt issues, (at least none that are not in deep denial, LOL!). It's been wonderful for me healthwise and energy-wise, but I also don't impose it on anyone else or try to convince other people to change their habits. I do share your opinion of vegans, though.
There ARE vegetarian conservatives, strange as that may seem! (There are liberal meat-eaters; notice that I don't tar you meat-eating FReepers with THAT ugly brush!) ;)
Sorry for the late reply. I just came back from my spree. Look in the papers tomorrrow to see my work.
(evil sneer) :\
Only if you don't live on it, which is what hippies do. And regular consumption doesn't count. :)
I've got some asian in me, so I should know. :P
Handy is always a good reason.
Which section?
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