Originally Posted by kosh

Not sure how this got into nutrition, but I guess its all related, esp considering how diet can effect changes in conciousness itself,and thus perception of much else.

Originally Posted by kosh

And hey, all the processed foods, ie preservative, colors...even flavours? What exactly do they mean by flavour? Artficial sweetner? See, if you get a cage of rats,and stick a certain chemical they're soft drink supply, and then you find that the rats partake of the drink more and more and in fact seem habituated to it, perhaps consumeing 50% more per day,and a preference for that drink than another with out the said chemical....you simply call the chem a flavour and thats how its all too commonly working these days and so the consumer is not really making that choice entirely, but maybe lulled into actual addictions, or compulsive eating, just as nicotine addicts get hooked too.

Like coca cola, in and of itself, could be behind a hell of a lot of obesity....addictive to some people. Maybe because of whats in it...associations... .certain trigger foods and or subtances that the body seeks out for equilibrium. Just that cigarettes are a very poor dilivery mechanism.