pimg class=”alignright” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202012/HiRes-2.jpg” alt=”HiRes 2″ width=”320″ height=”320″ title=”Why We Eat: Cravings” /Last week I a title=”Why We Eat: Hunger” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/why-we-eat-hunger/”picked up the theme of hunger/a with an intention to visit all the angles of the instinct #8211; the physiology behind it first #8211; but also the outer reaches of hunger’s emotional and social sway. The fact is, I can’t think of an instinct (a title=”8 Health Reasons to Have Sex (As If You Needed Them)” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/sex-health-benefits/”other than sex/a) that influences our evolution more or perhaps a more complex motivation. It’s one of those areas in which you can’t always separate biology from emotion. (The more you learn about the human animal, I think, the more apparent the melding of these two fields/forces becomes.) Enter cravings. Beyond the general experience of hunger (Feed me now!) are the urges toward particular foods (Need THIS now!). What exactly goes on here? What’s the […]
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