Aristoteles

I just found something interesting on the internet. It is in Dutch but I'll try and translate it. It’s an interesting idea/thought/truth about emotional eaters: people who eat because of controlling emotions.

Throughout the years we have learned to associate feelings with food. Aristoteles described this phenomenon before.

When two cases occur several times at the same moment we will be reminded of one thing due to the other even though it is not in the picture. Example: when you are celebrating something you’ll eat cake, during our birthdays we’ll be allowed sweets and crisps and when we’ve done something good we’ll be rewarded with candy. Our brain makes a connection between the feeling food gives us and that happy event that is going on at the same time. We have connected our eating habits to this sign that is given to our body, which has actually got nothing to do with food. So when we eat this association will come back to live; we feel good, just like we did when we had that cake on our birthday. But once you’ve finished the food, that awful emotion will get back to you. The real problem hasn’t been fixed.

Sounds just like me!