Eat to Live?

Published on Wednesday, April 13, 2011, by Sarah Perry / Edit Post

"So I think most people know at least one person like this... the kind of person who just eats to live, vs. lives to eat," says secretkessa. This way of life is incomprehensible to many Chowhounds. How do they live? What goes through their minds?

"My best friend from college always thought eating was a chore," says dynastar. "He wasn't a picky eater, just hated that he had to eat regularly. If there was a way for him to never eat again, he would jump on it." RealMenJulienne also has a friend like this: "If food came in daily capsule form with all necessary nutrients he would be first in line to try it. ... I must say, I have only ever met people like this in the USA. In Asia, Africa, and Europe everyone I meet has at least a little bit of interest in food, or some national pride in their home cuisine. I never meet people from outside the USA for whom eating is a chore and who have no food interest whatsoever."

"I think some of us have better olfactory and taste sensitivity and so we actually like eating," says sueatmo. "Mr. Sueatmo likes quantity of food and sweet tastes. He admits he doesn't have the sensitive taste that I seem to have. For one thing, he doesn't detect over salting. He does however like to eat."

"I read once that 25% of the population cannot taste anything," says wekick. "This would explain a whole lot of things!"

Discuss: Those you know who actually only "eat to live"?

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  • You are absolutely correct, and, that is exactly the point. Craving is distinctly dependent upon exposure. However, Chapter 1 in the book, Phytonutrition: Finding Fitness For Life! concludes that 90-days up to 1-year fasting craved-calorie-dense foods is required to lose the cravings. Once this is done, cravings are redirected to calorie-sparse plant foods. This observed change in food choices...+READ

    You are absolutely correct, and, that is exactly the point. Craving is distinctly dependent upon exposure. However, Chapter 1 in the book, Phytonutrition: Finding Fitness For Life! concludes that 90-days up to 1-year fasting craved-calorie-dense foods is required to lose the cravings. Once this is done, cravings are redirected to calorie-sparse plant foods. This observed change in food choices reduces cholesterol, body mass index, and all the health issues attached...I have seen this over and over in subjects who made these changes.-COLLAPSE

  • Very interesting Dr. Misner. Thanks for sharing your research. I do take issue with one statement in your response. That is "People raised in societies who never
    taste American calorie-dense foods do not crave them"
    Does anyone crave food that they have never tasted?? I would think you would have to have been exposed to any food, calorie-dense or not, in order to crave it. I am not sure that...+READ

    Very interesting Dr. Misner. Thanks for sharing your research. I do take issue with one statement in your response. That is "People raised in societies who never
    taste American calorie-dense foods do not crave them"
    Does anyone crave food that they have never tasted?? I would think you would have to have been exposed to any food, calorie-dense or not, in order to crave it. I am not sure that lack of craving a food that one has never tasted is a criteria to determine that a food is addicting!-COLLAPSE

  • Eat To Live or Live To Eat?

    Dr. Bill Misner, Ph.D.

    Chapter I in my book, Phytonutrition: Finding Fitness For Life! discusses the merits of "eating to live" favorably preferred above "living to eat." This subject is centered on appetite. Appetite is scientifically shown to chose those foods with highest calorie-density over those with less. Humans are born with 3-types of taste sensations,...+READ

    Eat To Live or Live To Eat?

    Dr. Bill Misner, Ph.D.

    Chapter I in my book, Phytonutrition: Finding Fitness For Life! discusses the merits of "eating to live" favorably preferred above "living to eat." This subject is centered on appetite. Appetite is scientifically shown to chose those foods with highest calorie-density over those with less. Humans are born with 3-types of taste sensations, Super-Taste, Normal-Taste, No-Taste. Appetite is driven to over-eat in Super-Tasters and Normal-Tasters. They are made genetically speaking to chose calorie-rich foods and unfortunately they make up the vast majority of us. Those born with poor to no taste-sensitivity can get by without appetite-driven calorie overdose. Here is an example for your self-test:
    Which food would you chose?

    FOOD......................CALORIES/LB
    Ice Cream-----------------3000
    Chocolate Candy----------2500
    French Fries---------------2500
    Cheese--------------------1700
    Rice/Potatoe/Beans---------500
    Fruit------------------------300
    Vegetables------------------200

    You can see [most of you] that the higher the calorie per lb, the more likely it is preferred. Taste, I concluded from several remarkable scientific documents is closely related to neuropathological opioid addiction. Opioid addiction in the human brain drives the addict to crave the Opioid similar to human addiction for calorie dense foods. The addict becomes addicted after exposure to the addictive substance. People raised in societies who never
    taste American calorie-dense foods do not crave them. They are content consuming calorie-sparse foods such as beans, potatoes, fruit, and vegetables.
    Those of you who attempt to change "Living to Eat" addiction to calorie-rich unhealthy foods require 90-300 days fasting those foods in order to change harmful behavior to healthful "Eating to Live."

    Dr. Bill Misner, Ph.D.
    "Phytonutrition: Finding Fitness For Life!" @ http://abv8.me/2kT-COLLAPSE