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the many forms of gluttony
TEXT SOFIA MOLINARO
there may be no love that is sincerer than food, but a gluttonous desire
can appear in a thousand different forms
“Sometimes I had difficulty remembering that
‘all you can eat’ is not a personal challenge.”
MARIKA CHRISTIAN
Behind every margin, there is a transgression. The stricter
your margins, the more you are tempted to transgress. The
more you construct a form of disorder in your daily life,
the less you will feel the need to transgress. For instance a
small piece of chocolate saves the need to lapse in bigger
matters. To be able to keep a balanced diet, small disorders
are needed to keep stability. Therefore do not let your
temptations posses you completely, because remember
that gluttony kills more than the sword!
From time to time we all have food cravings, and there’s
nothing wrong with that. But what we don’t know is that
almost 90% of the time food cravings derive from our
minds. Therefore when we specifically crave a certain type
of food, it‘s because that food is not present in our daily
diet, causing our minds to overanalyze the need for this
food. New research shows that this comes from specific
areas of the brain responsible for memory and sensing
pleasure. These areas are trigger points that are to blame for
developing (unhealthy) food cravings. The hippocampus,
insula, and caudate, are areas within the brain that spark
the yearning of these food cravings that we can absolutely
not live without. But don’t worry because there is actually
a way to stop you from the desire to eat foods that are
particularly high in fat and sugar. All you have to do is
simply block the opiate receptors in the brain, which are
our pleasure senses, and BAM food cravings gone! But
emotion and desire are factors that go way beyond the
physiological reasons for food cravings. When you are
stressed or anxious is when your cravings shoot to the sky,
causing you to crave the ultimate enemy - carbohydrates.
It is simple; when your diet lacks in variety of foods, it leads
to more food cravings, therefore be careful not to overlook
the obvious. It’s not just sugar or carbohydrates that our
bodies crave, but mostly the fat within the foods that cause
this feeling of necessity. When looking at the specific types
of food that are normally desired by people, almost all of
them contain more fat than carbohydrates. It is important
to make smart decisions. Make better choices for yourself
by deciding to choose the more nutritional dishes instead
of the high in fat options when looking for something to
satisfy your food cravings. At the end of the day we are
all humans and we need some form of sugar or fat in our
diets. The common mistake most people make is skipping
meals and waiting too many hours before the next meal.
This causes our bodies to get so hungry that it ends up
wanting us to overeat in order to compensate. It is during
this state of extreme hunger that our bodies end up craving
quick-fix foods high in sugar or fat like candy bars. A way
to fight this type of craving is by eating more often. When
you eat several meals a day you are always having your
metabolism in motion, therefore your body actually burns
more fat and is healthier. The best way to calm our bodies
is to nurture them.
Gluttony is a sin. We become guilty of gluttony when we
use food or drink in a form that can injure our wellbeing
or damage our mind. We eat to nourish our bodies; not
for satisfaction. Eating itself is not a sin, but if one eats
in a manner that is over aggressive, then it turns into
something sinful and evil. Poor eating habits like indulging
or constant eating are forms of pleasure that trigger junk
food inhalation, which will eventually devastate the human
body. Wanting more pleasure from something than it is
made for or wanting it exactly our way, transforms into a sin.
It does happen to become so caught up in a certain type of
pleasure, that we eventually cannot appreciate other things
and are ready to sacrifice other indulgences for one.
When we think about gluttony, we automatically associate
it with fat or obesity; the act of not being able to resist
any type of temptation or not being capable of controlling
yourself from overeating excessively. It is a continuous
cycle, we indulge and famish and indulge again. When
indulging ourselves we consume huge amounts of food
in a short quantity of time and in a helpless manner. We
enter gluttony when we request additional desire from
something than it was created for. Gluttony is always
thought that it only pertains to food, but it also pertains to
not being able to have enough of other forms of pleasure
like, companionship, sex, entertainment or games. Being
able to control our cravings and temptations will free us
from sin.
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