20 Apr 2011, 3:38 pm
Zen wrote:
hyperlexian wrote:
Zen wrote:
hyperlexian wrote:
i remind myself that flavour is a cognitive interpretation of a stimulus (not the correct wording but whatever), and it is mostly the memory of a taste that we are craving. the actual experience of tasting something is momentary and fleeting, but it is the memory that makes us want more because it is the memory that tells us what it was like and what feelings to associate with it. so i trick my brain into conjuring up the memory in great detail, and over time the cravings begin to pass.
I recently heard something about that, that imagining eating something is enough to satisfy a craving. Interesting.
All I know is that sometimes I crave something that I for some reason remember as delicious, but when I actually eat it, it's just eh.
I see there are other food obsessors here.
I am one too.wow, that's cool to know there may be actual research backing up my approach. it makes logical sense to me and i blogged about it a while back. do you remember where you saw the information?
I heard it on the radio, but here's the article they were talking about. It looks like you can only view part of it though.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... rsons-diet
thank you for providing the link. i'm a little shocked, because i blogged about it in July of 2009, but i guess there's nothing new under the sun! maybe it isn't a new idea at all.
http://hyperlexian.blogspot.com/2009/07 ... hwise.html
