Showing posts with label conditioned hypereating. Show all posts
Showing posts with label conditioned hypereating. Show all posts

Sunday, October 20, 2013

Deleting Hyperpalatable

I am cheap,
and will not waste foods,
so last night I ate a
hyperpalatable supper,
a smoked porkchop,
and the nearing the end of
thankings leftovers finally,
cabbage roles and
ham and beans,
but much more of them remain.

Lower or actually normal
palatability food are more filling,
after trying out about three meals,
I can feel the difference.

It occurs to me that any cook
can convert normal palatable into
hyperpalatable food with minor
addition of ingredients and calories.
All we need do is add butter,
add a bit of sauce,
a bit of cheese,
a bit of spices.

Is that all it takes to gain satiation?

Friday, October 18, 2013

Wants Exploration

Cravings for food are desires, not needs.
They do drive appetite,
which make life difficult when one is drooling.
Desires come in a number of types,
terminal, and instrumental.
They can be logical - rational,
or emotional based.
Eating is a conditioned response
that becomes habitual, aka unconscious.
Advertising raises emotional desires,
which in turn raise appetite.

Now lets try to straighten this spaghetti.

This is trying to put
David Kessler work on why we eat
together with On Desire by William Irvine.

So when I see food, and it is available to me
I have a hedonic emotional terminal desire to eat.
Emotional hedonic terminal desires are the
strongest desires, the largest dopamine response.
If I eat, it (did) or would develop into a habit.
So I have become habituated
or conditioned to eating,
wanting to eat, desiring to eat
when I see food (cue), and it is available.

Pavlov's dogs come to mind
So what are the treatment options.
I am now aware that it is an
irrational emotional terminal desire
and should be ignored.
The ultimate human purpose
is to work from irrational emotions
toward reason and rational actions.
Is that enough?


Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Just realized

We humans do not stand a chance
of remaining healthy and
normal weight
if we eat any industrial processed foodstuffs.
These are products,
not foods.

Conditioned hypereating
is a learned behavior.
We unintentionally learned
from our body responses.
It includes anxiety overeating,
that is refeeding after the
anxiety (or stress) condition
has been removed.
(as typical after school feeding)

Glucose-insulin overdose,
hyperinsulinemia, food addiction,
behavioral addictions,
wheat / opioid addictions,
and perhaps eating disorders
are all a result
of conditioned hypereating.

If it can be learned,
it can be unlearned.