This afternoon, I was reading a really interesting article about how our minds nad our bodies interact when digesting food, and the article claims that when we are eating foods that look good to us and that we enjoy the taste of, we actually can digest them better.
As amazing as that seems, it apparently was proven out in studies of people being given food that they liked and foods they didn’t like. One example was a Thai dish that was given to a group of Thai volunteers, as well as group of Swedish volunteers. The Thai volunteers loved the dish and got more nutrients from eating it than the Swedish volunteers, who’d dodn’t Like how the food tasted.
Then, they took the same food ingredients, but prepared it differently, where it was all mushy and didn’t look appealing, and the Thai volunteers thought it tasted awful, and this time they got a whopping 70% less nutrients from eating the very same foods than they did when it looked and tasted good to them.
Of course, this does not mean that we should live on cupcakes and apple pie, just because we crave that; but it does mean that we will probably have better digestion from the foods we do eat if we prepare them in a way that looks and tastes great to us.
The article does say that it is fine to indulge in those treat foods now and then, if you have a special craving for something, and of course, we would be doing that during our one meal, so it is not like that would be the only thing we were eating, and it would be part of whatever our meal included.
https://www.thedailymeal.com/healthy-eating/science-says-healthiest-food-food-you-actually-want-eat
As amazing as that seems, it apparently was proven out in studies of people being given food that they liked and foods they didn’t like. One example was a Thai dish that was given to a group of Thai volunteers, as well as group of Swedish volunteers. The Thai volunteers loved the dish and got more nutrients from eating it than the Swedish volunteers, who’d dodn’t Like how the food tasted.
Then, they took the same food ingredients, but prepared it differently, where it was all mushy and didn’t look appealing, and the Thai volunteers thought it tasted awful, and this time they got a whopping 70% less nutrients from eating the very same foods than they did when it looked and tasted good to them.
Of course, this does not mean that we should live on cupcakes and apple pie, just because we crave that; but it does mean that we will probably have better digestion from the foods we do eat if we prepare them in a way that looks and tastes great to us.
The article does say that it is fine to indulge in those treat foods now and then, if you have a special craving for something, and of course, we would be doing that during our one meal, so it is not like that would be the only thing we were eating, and it would be part of whatever our meal included.
https://www.thedailymeal.com/healthy-eating/science-says-healthiest-food-food-you-actually-want-eat