The other day I was eating some junk food and wishing there was a way I could just enjoy the taste of the food instead of it actually going into my body.
But if you were to just chew it then spit it out, it would be extremely unsatisfying and probably worse then just not putting it in your mouth at all.
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The only reason the food tastes good to you, is your bodys way of saying it want it.
You can just chew it and spit it out, like a chewing gum, but it obviously wont help on hunger.
You are describing a eating disorder. Plenty of people gorge themselves and then purge the food by vomiting.
Because the ability to acquire **so much food** that you can waste the calories by spiting it out didn’t exist until the last fraction of a second and our bodies still think it’s the year 1 million BC
it wouldn’t make sense for an organism in nature to evolve such a behavior. food tastes good as a way to “trick” your monkey brain into continue this basic ass primordial-slug behavior known as “eating so I don’t die”
Somewhat related, this leads a good technique for drinking sugary drinks. A cup of fruit punch lasts way longer if you just hold a sip in your mouth for a while before swallowing. You still enjoy the flavor while drinking way less.
Like someone else said, our brains are wired to stay on the path to calories. Calories are the goal, not the pleasure. You can’t just see food, lick, or smell it because that’s not how your ancestors survived.
Is this even true? When I’m at the bottom of a weight cut and craving something, I’ll chew and spit it out. Satisfies the craving for me
>Why do we have to actually ingest food to enjoy it?
We don’t. You can enjoy the smell of food. You can enjoy the look of food. You can even enjoy the feel of food with your fingers or other body parts.
I have a friend who, while she was pregnant, would ask to smell things she missed but couldn’t eat. I’m sure that was less enjoyable than eating it. But she got some pleasure from the scents.
Because your body evolved after 3.7 thousand millions of years of life on Earth so that you’ll actually enjoy it and you’ll want to do it. If that wasn’t the case you wouldn’t have such a drive to eat so you’d be be dead. Similar thing why sex is so pleasurable. Your body wants you to do things which are good for the survival and spread of your genes.
I was watching Intervention. It was an episode about a woman with an eating disorder. She was chewing cookies and spitting them out. I thought it was a great idea, but of course the chyron in the screen says, “chewing and spitting out food is a symptom of an eating disorder.”
>if you were to just chew it then spit it out, it would be extremely unsatisfying
Tell that to wine snobs
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