I think craving foods that are meaty, fatty and salty is a function of how scared you are that everything is going to be taken away from you without warning. When I am feeling secure and happy I will happily eat rice and beans. When I was unemployed and being threatened by Jobcentre Plus if I didn't turn up at the right time/prove I wasn't having sex with my ex despite washing his socks to fill up the washing machine which is obviously the same thing as being in a relationship/tick the right incomprehensible boxes, I was all about the grease and chips. (And when College were making me homeless every 8 weeks.) When I was at school I could happily have eaten McDonalds every day. (In one temp job between school and university I did. Turns out it makes you feel a bit weird.)
So, I reckon the fast food industry do kind of take advantage of people's biological inability to choose what they crave, but I think people who come from the willpower side of the argument should try being genuinely at risk of sleeping on the street and then see how they argue against their stomach hormones.
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Date: 2013-03-04 03:47 pm (UTC)So, I reckon the fast food industry do kind of take advantage of people's biological inability to choose what they crave, but I think people who come from the willpower side of the argument should try being genuinely at risk of sleeping on the street and then see how they argue against their stomach hormones.