I wanted to title this one "If it Tastes Good Spit it Out", but I realized that I already have a post with that title. In a way this one goes along with the previous one. It has to do with food and eating.
The new year has just begun and I have witnessed various people in my life attempting to be more healthy. A very worthy goal indeed. I applaud them and wish to do the same myself. Eat right, exercise, and live well. My problem, not that I am very over weight, lies in the eat right area.
I love to eat. I do it all the time. You might say that I am addicted to it. I can't go more than a few hours, maybe a day, without succumbing to the pangs of the addiction that inflicts my life with the never ending desire and need to eat. They need a twelve step for me. I am an addict of food.
I sit around and wonder. Everyone does it. This time I wonder about food and hunger. I realize that our bodies need a certain amount of fuel to carry on the tasks that keep us alive and healthy. But what is it that causes us to eat more than we should? Why over do it? Once we get the needed amount why do we ingest more? Is it solely for the taste? Is it a subconscious need? Maybe it is because we dislike ourselves and it is a way of self-punishment. Some would probably throw us in the same boat with all those who suffer from other addictions and say we had a bad relationship with our mothers, whatever the heck that means. It could be peer pressure. I remember as a kid that it was cool to be able to eat more than your buddy. I have heard that people do it because they are bored, but of that I am not convinced. Whatever it is, I don't know. But what I do know is that there are great masses of people that do it.
My wondering leads me to think that there may be a solution. Why no just spit it out? Get your favorite food and enjoy. When you get the urge to swallow, when that point arrives, just spit it out. You get all the taste and I suppose a few calories, but I would suppose that the vast amount of what causes us to get fat would never make it to the stomach. Hurrah and whoop. Problem solved.
I mean, what is it that makes us want to swallow anyway? Why go through with the ingestion part if you have already satisfied the nutritional requirements for your body for the day? It may be that there is a biological demand that forces us to eat, and eat. We would get the taste. We would scratch the itch of occupying our mouths. It would even have other benefits as well.
You may be thinking, ooh, how gross. The constant spitting and the necessary receptacle for the masticated munchies might keep some on the overweight train, but we tolerate other bad habits, right? There are plenty of tobacco users out there who spit all the time. They might be the first to benefit since they are used to spitting into a cup. We could even re-coop some of the expense by recycling. That's the in thing right now, isn't it? We could sell the slop to pig farms or other types of feed lots. We could compost it and use the methane to fire boilers for the generation of power. The sky's the limit.
How many lives would be saved by avoiding the sure to come heart attacks? How many fewer people would not have diabetes? How many people would be able to fly again without purchasing two seats? How much would we save in medical expenses? The good that could come from this is immeasurable.
I see it as a wining situation for everyone. Just spit it out when the urge to swallow comes. It may take a bit of retraining but we can do it. Lets change the world, one wad at a time. Or are we just too lazy to do it?
El Toro Negro
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