Post by Boris on Jul 6, 2008 21:48:21 GMT -5
"Carefully consider the relationship between taste and hunger. Can you use hunger to your advantage? Can hunger reactivate long dormant primitive hardwiring? Can deep hunger be used to our benefit - intstead of its usual role as a detrimental binge trigger?
The first step is to stop eating. At least for a while.
Eventually deprivation reawakens deadened and desensitized taste buds. Taste amplification arises out of the depth of true and prolonged hunger. Amplified taste becomes another valid arrow in our nutritional quiver. Another productive tool. In this day and age of plenty, taste buds are deluged and deadened with an unending barrage of overly sweet, salty, bitter, savory, chemically-drenched food and drink. We are taste junkies. We are used to eating what we want when we want. Our taste buds are overwrought and overwhelmed. Only the most extreme foods are able to push their way through the forefront of our overwhelmed palettes and make any kind of taste impression.
Our taste receptor sites are clogged. Hunger cleans out these sites. Taste sensation reemerges in direct proportion to how long we abstain from food. Fasting is one way to make a clean break with the detrimental foods we are so addicted to...
...Hunger makes everything taste better. Hunger is multi-leveled and multi-dimensional. Hunger can be used to reestablish nutritional sanity.
(Marty Gallagher, The Purposeful Primitive, 2008, p. 408)
The first step is to stop eating. At least for a while.
Eventually deprivation reawakens deadened and desensitized taste buds. Taste amplification arises out of the depth of true and prolonged hunger. Amplified taste becomes another valid arrow in our nutritional quiver. Another productive tool. In this day and age of plenty, taste buds are deluged and deadened with an unending barrage of overly sweet, salty, bitter, savory, chemically-drenched food and drink. We are taste junkies. We are used to eating what we want when we want. Our taste buds are overwrought and overwhelmed. Only the most extreme foods are able to push their way through the forefront of our overwhelmed palettes and make any kind of taste impression.
Our taste receptor sites are clogged. Hunger cleans out these sites. Taste sensation reemerges in direct proportion to how long we abstain from food. Fasting is one way to make a clean break with the detrimental foods we are so addicted to...
...Hunger makes everything taste better. Hunger is multi-leveled and multi-dimensional. Hunger can be used to reestablish nutritional sanity.
(Marty Gallagher, The Purposeful Primitive, 2008, p. 408)