Is Our Addictive Relationship to Food Actually About Our Need for More Pleasure?
How the way we nourish ourselves has become a socially acceptable way to experience pleasure
I’ve been thinking about the nature of our relationship to food, and I’ve begun to wonder if it has more to do with pleasure than with nourishment.
If it were just about nourishing ourselves with what was healthy and beneficial to our bodies and minds, we wouldn’t eat half of what is on offer. Food could still be fast, but it certainly wouldn’t be junk. There would be an emphasis on vitamins, nutrients, and balance, but we were blessed/cursed with taste buds, and therein lies the problem.
Things that aren’t good for us taste good, and we have bodily systems that allow us to consume way more than we need, storing energy for a rainy day that never comes.
This is nothing new. We are all aware and working with our own levels of struggle as we try and balance what our brain knows to be good for our bodies, and what our bodies actually need.
The factor that seems to be the tipping point for many women, is the need for pleasure.
