<ul>
<li>There is a complex hormonal reaction that affects those who are in love, and also their food choice.</li>
<li>Even early on in a romantic relationship, food plays an important role, as one can cook for their partner or buy them a fancy dinner.</li>
<li>The quality of the food and how it is presented is crucial as it affects the quality of the relationship.</li>
<li>New research points towards a ‘reward hormone’ called norepinephrine that shoots up in new romantic relationships, increasing the feeling of euphoria, while also suppressing appetite.</li>
</ul>

The Link Between Food And Love

Health

<ul>
<li>A study showed that married women are more likely to become obese, due to more food intake.</li>
<li>Once a person settles down, they are less likely to stay in shape and work towards looking their best, as there is no competition in the dating field.</li>
<li>Couples spend more time on the couch having food, leading to weight gain.</li>
</ul>

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Snacks keep us over till the next meal. Balanced snacks and meals at consistent times during the day keep your blood sugar stable and keep you from overeating.
Healthy snacking include protein, fibre, and other nutrients that will keep your blood sugar in an optimal range. In contrast, low blood sugar causes exhaustion and makes you crave sugary or fatty foods.

Snacks are part of a healthy diet

Establish a regular eating schedule and stay with it. For example, breakfast at 8 a.m., lunch at noon, a snack around 3 p.m. and dinner at 6 p.m.
The biggest health benefit to eating at regular times is appetite regulation. Your body will adjust to the pattern within a week and you will become hungry at expected times. It will help you to recognise when you are really hungry or just desire to eat because of boredom or stress.

Eat meals and snacks at regular times

Eating three meals doesn&#39;t work for everyone. Some people like to graze. They may crunch on veggies and dip, potato chips, cheese with cracker, chips and salsa, or rice crackers and hummus.
A snack should match your nutritional need. Higher-calorie snacks give energy, while lower-calorie choices with more fibre and protein help to feel full and satisfied.

How nutritionists snack

Snacks can be seen as fuel that helps to keep your energy up until mealtime.
<ul>
<li>Before a workout, nutritionists eat things like peanut butter and jelly toast, a banana and peanut butter, yoghurt, frozen berries and flax seeds or cereal.</li>
<li>During long exercising sessions, nutritionists eat bars that include protein, carbohydrates and sugar, or bananas.</li>
</ul>

How nutritionists fit snacks into their workouts

Parents can provide six meal opportunities: three meals, with two to three snacks.
Kids that graze all day may not learn to listen to their hunger and fullness signals. However, with designated snack time, kids are often more willing to eat what they need or stick with healthier options.

Snacking for kids

If you want to eat some snacks right now, consider if you&#39;re just thirsty. It is not uncommon to confuse hunger with thirst.
Reach for a glass of water or a can of seltzer before grabbing a snack. You may discover that you were not really hungry.

You might just be thirsty

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Many people continue to practice the same diet fad or routine to lose weight even after the effort is proven to be ineffective. This mentality of dieters is called the False Hope Syndrome and happens due to:
<ol>
<li>Overestimating the weight loss amount.</li>
<li>Misjudgement of the time it would take to lose weight.</li>
<li>Not knowing how easy or difficult it would be.</li>
<li>Unrealistic expectations of the result of weight loss.</li>
</ol>

False Hope Syndrome In Dieting

A dieter often believes the diet is the cause of failure, and he or she hasn’t tried hard enough. They overlook their own habits and behaviours and blame their intake.
We like to be in control of any situation, and have false hopes about the benefits of the ‘perfect diet’ we are consuming. The media and marketing companies are also contributing to plant unrealistic expectations in many people trying to lose weight.

Searching For The "Perfect Diet"

Dieting is not as easy as portrayed by the media. Many people abandon the process midway or replace them with realistic and scaled-down versions.
<ul>
<li>One has to realize that dieting is a long-term process and one has to create systems that encourage habitual and behavioural changes that are not abandoned after a month.</li>
<li>One should not see a failed effort as something to be ashamed of, but try to learn and evolve from it.</li>
<li>One has to let go of unrealistic expectations and be practical.</li>
</ul>

How To Diet Successfully

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Mindful eating is a mini-meditation that pulls us away from our distractions and multi-tasking to intentionally focus on something that we would want to relish.
Eating with intention, awareness and attention is called mindful eating. Eating what we love, like chocolate, can be made infinitely better by giving it one’s full attention.

Mindful Eating

A piece of chocolate, eaten mindfully:
<ol>
<li>Select the piece of chocolate keeping in mind your craving.</li>
<li>Set aside any guilt or distractions and be fully present, sitting down to savour the experience.</li>
<li>Unwrap the chocolate paying attention to the aroma and the sound.</li>
<li>Pause a while after taking the first bite, feeling the texture and flavour inside your mouth.</li>
<li>Chew the chocolate noticing the change in the flavour and the arising feeling of pleasure.</li>
<li>Pause and let the taste linger after swallowing.</li>
<li>Repeat slowly until your treat is consumed.</li>
</ol>

How To Eat Mindfully

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Philosophy of food is found on the idea that food is a mirror.
Eating reflects the making of a self - the many decisions and circumstances that lead us to eat the way we do. Philosophy of food mirrors on the ethical, political, social, artistic, identity-defining aspects of food. It makes us think and reflect on our diets and eating habits.

Philosophy of food

Food is a relation to organism and circumstance.
<ul>
<li>Food is bound to vary from moment to moment. Coffee and pasty are a fine breakfast or afternoon snack. Yet, most of us won&#39;t enjoy it for dinner.</li>
<li>Circumstances are bound to involve contradictory principles. You may buy only organic food, but on vacation, you crave burgers and fries.</li>
</ul>
Therefore, any given food relation is the mirror of an eater, and it represents the eater&#39;s needs, habits, convictions, deliberations, and compromises.

Food as a Relation

Ethical convictions can shape our diets.* Would you eat a cat or a horse? Why or why not?* Your reasons are likely rooted in ethical principles, such as feeling outraged that someone can do such a thing.
Vegetarians conform to a particular diet to prevent unjustified violence being done to animals.

Food Ethics

Food as art has spurred heated debates. Some argue that food is a minor art at best for three reasons:
<ul>
<li>Foods are short-lived in comparison to, for instance, long-lasting art carved out of marble.</li>
<li>Food is intrinsically linked to a practical purpose - nourishment.</li>
<li>Food depends on its material constitution that is different from music, painting, or sculpture.</li>
</ul>
At best, cooks can be very good artisans and can be paired with fancy hairdressers or skilled gardeners.

Food as Art

Americans highly esteem the role of food experts while the French and Italians do not. It&#39;s possibly because of different ways to regard the evaluation of a food.
Is there a truth when it comes to judgments about food? On the one hand, my tasting experience is different from yours and completely subjective. On the other, an expert can challenge a reviewer&#39;s opinions about a wine or a restaurant.

Food Experts

Most foods at the supermarket carry on their labels &quot;nutritional facts.&quot; We use it to guide how we eat.
But what do those numbers have to do with what we put in our stomachs? We don&#39;t really know the rules regarding metabolism or understand the implications of the funding of studies on nutritional facts.

Food Science

Some concerns for political philosophy include:
<ul>
<li>The challenges that food consumption poses to the environment. For example, factory farming produces more pollution than airfare travel.</li>
<li>Food trades, such as coffee, tea, and chocolate, raise issues of fairness and equity in the global market.</li>
<li>Food production, distribution, and retail is an opportunity to talk about the condition of workers across the globe.</li>
</ul>

Food Politics

A refusal to consider eating habits in a meaningful manner is similar to a lack of self-understanding or authenticity.
Since self-understanding and authenticity are some of the chief aims of philosophical inquiry, food is a key to philosophical insight. The philosophy of food is then the pursuit of an authentic diet.

Food and Self-Understanding

How can food lead to deep philosophical discussions? Find how it reflects the ethical, political, social, artistic, identity-defining aspects of life.

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