Building Food Addictions
It's around noontime and I'm ready for the biggest meal of the day
Hmmm…. maybe cook some rice "Boy, am I hungry"
Now I begin rooting
Well, here are some potato chips "Oh, the crinkled kind looks better!"
Those are really good "Bet you can't just eat one or two or three or……"
"Whew, able to eat only three but were they good or what?"
Five minutes later "Those potato chips were really good As a matter of fact they are still lingering in my awareness Am I addicted to that fatty(sour) and salty tastes? I would definitely go back but …."(even racoons above can get addicted to potato chips!!)
Now this dramatic interlude with the potato chip is a descriptor, and I would suspect, fits any one of us as we forage and graze the kitchen cabinets when our aroused appetite is strong
And I'm not here to make this process right or wrong Merely an observation
What's the observation? The one where I had the potato chips and yet the bag harkened me back What I had was not enough I was satisfied with the tastes but my awareness called me back over and over again
This mental process is what I call an addiction to taste and the sweet, sour, and salty tastes are the most powerful addicting tastes that we have as people
The potato is sweet, the fatty acids of the deep fat frying are sour, and the saltiness on the chip brings the food over the top Why do we crave these tastes?
Because they reduce Vata and since we are all Vata aggravated due to the excess mobility in our culture we crave these tastes which slow us down
Can you see this pattern crop up in your day to day activities? Do you think this witnessing could be of value? Would you think that this could stop an addictive process?
Until tomorrow To health as a Skill Love DrBill
