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Nutrition
The Two Faces Of Hunger
وجهان للجوع
I have written previously about appetite and the language of eating. I now would like to expand on this pattern of thinking with a focus on hunger itself.
I write about hunger with the utmost respect for those people who truly experience hunger in its most insidious form — because they do not have enough money to buy food.
The kind of hunger that I come up against in my practice as a dietitian, however, is that which comes from deliberately withholding food in the faint hope that this will somehow bring about a change in body shape — with its dreamed-of benefits of happiness, love and acceptance.
It seems strange to me that in this country we can have such opposite experiences with food — that is, the willful refusal of food, side by side with the terror of not being able to feed a family. But it does illustrate how crucial food is to our well-being — be it mental (in the mind of the dieter) or physical (in hungry families).
When exactly did hunger become such a badge of honour among dieters? How have we convinced so many people that, unless they are hungry, they aren’t losing weight? Or that the only solution to weight loss is to ‘curb’ their hunger?
When did the missing of meals become so commonplace, and why have we become so complacent about it? Why do we believe the ad that covers an entire side of a city bus telling us that eating a breakfast bar is equivalent to eating breakfast?
When did a breakfast bar, or a piece of fruit or a glass of juice become an acceptable definition of a meal?
Running on empty
Have you not noticed how, in movies, on television and in books, characters seldom start or finish meals?
Perhaps it is a reflection of the books that I read, but I remember one time in particular when I had to laugh out loud at the absurdity of the author’s dilemma: how could his main character possibly feel hunger when he’d had a good meal (breakfast) a mere eight hours previously?
The character’s (or the author’s for that matter) car certainly couldn’t have driven that long before needing a fill-up, so why are humans expected to run on empty?
I can’t relate how many times my mouth has hung empty in anticipation of that forkful of food reaching the actor’s lips, never to succeed because of important business that cannot wait.
One of my favourite books that I read to my son when he was young was the Wizard of Oz. I haven’t reread the book in many years so my memory may be hazy, but I do believe that every breakfast, lunch and supper that Dorothy ate in the Land of Oz was documented and described. Dorothy understood the importance of eating meals.
While I want people to accept the logic that eating meals on a regular basis is mere biology, I also want to acknowledge their concern about their weight.
Research shows that people who skip breakfast weigh more than those who don’t. So eating regularly now becomes a weight control measure as well as a health measure!
Skimping on fuel early in the day has a way of driving hunger later, and this is usually the type of hunger that leads one into eating too much at supper, or too much of the ‘wrong food’ either before or after supper.
That is the evil side of hunger — the side that meal missers are most familiar with, and which they are trying to tame.
Appetite is a gift
Now perhaps we can concentrate on the positive side of hunger. I believe that when you flip hunger over you get appetite — something that we should hold precious and want to honour.
Appetite is a gift of health that reminds us to fill our engines. It is our body’s job to remind us of our fuel requirements. It is our job to hear our body’s message, to tap in to our appetite mechanism and then to use the best quality fuel that we can.
We must not try to ‘drive’ for long hours with little gas in our bodies and then to try to fool our engines with what I have referred to in the past as ‘sand and gravel.’
We must honour ourselves by taking good care of ourselves, and we must start from a level of self and body acceptance — not from the disrespect of ‘starving’ ourselves to thinness.
Nutrition
The Two Faces Of Hunger
وجهان للجوع
I have written previously about appetite and the language of eating. I now would like to expand on this pattern of thinking with a focus on hunger itself.
I write about hunger with the utmost respect for those people who truly experience hunger in its most insidious form — because they do not have enough money to buy food.
The kind of hunger that I come up against in my practice as a dietitian, however, is that which comes from deliberately withholding food in the faint hope that this will somehow bring about a change in body shape — with its dreamed-of benefits of happiness, love and acceptance.
It seems strange to me that in this country we can have such opposite experiences with food — that is, the willful refusal of food, side by side with the terror of not being able to feed a family. But it does illustrate how crucial food is to our well-being — be it mental (in the mind of the dieter) or physical (in hungry families).
When exactly did hunger become such a badge of honour among dieters? How have we convinced so many people that, unless they are hungry, they aren’t losing weight? Or that the only solution to weight loss is to ‘curb’ their hunger?
When did the missing of meals become so commonplace, and why have we become so complacent about it? Why do we believe the ad that covers an entire side of a city bus telling us that eating a breakfast bar is equivalent to eating breakfast?
When did a breakfast bar, or a piece of fruit or a glass of juice become an acceptable definition of a meal?
Running on empty
Have you not noticed how, in movies, on television and in books, characters seldom start or finish meals?
Perhaps it is a reflection of the books that I read, but I remember one time in particular when I had to laugh out loud at the absurdity of the author’s dilemma: how could his main character possibly feel hunger when he’d had a good meal (breakfast) a mere eight hours previously?
The character’s (or the author’s for that matter) car certainly couldn’t have driven that long before needing a fill-up, so why are humans expected to run on empty?
I can’t relate how many times my mouth has hung empty in anticipation of that forkful of food reaching the actor’s lips, never to succeed because of important business that cannot wait.
One of my favourite books that I read to my son when he was young was the Wizard of Oz. I haven’t reread the book in many years so my memory may be hazy, but I do believe that every breakfast, lunch and supper that Dorothy ate in the Land of Oz was documented and described. Dorothy understood the importance of eating meals.
While I want people to accept the logic that eating meals on a regular basis is mere biology, I also want to acknowledge their concern about their weight.
Research shows that people who skip breakfast weigh more than those who don’t. So eating regularly now becomes a weight control measure as well as a health measure!
Skimping on fuel early in the day has a way of driving hunger later, and this is usually the type of hunger that leads one into eating too much at supper, or too much of the ‘wrong food’ either before or after supper.
That is the evil side of hunger — the side that meal missers are most familiar with, and which they are trying to tame.
Appetite is a gift
Now perhaps we can concentrate on the positive side of hunger. I believe that when you flip hunger over you get appetite — something that we should hold precious and want to honour.
Appetite is a gift of health that reminds us to fill our engines. It is our body’s job to remind us of our fuel requirements. It is our job to hear our body’s message, to tap in to our appetite mechanism and then to use the best quality fuel that we can.
We must not try to ‘drive’ for long hours with little gas in our bodies and then to try to fool our engines with what I have referred to in the past as ‘sand and gravel.’
We must honour ourselves by taking good care of ourselves, and we must start from a level of self and body acceptance — not from the disrespect of ‘starving’ ourselves to thinness.
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