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Food Choices – From Eating for Taste to Eating to Nourish - Everyday Livingness
A couple of years ago I came across some ideas about food choices that challenged everything I thought I knew about my body and the effects of what I put into it. The idea of not drinking alcohol or caffeine and giving up gluten and dairy sounded ultra-healthy, but the thought of no cake or mojitos ever again? What a boring way to live, I thought. Back then I judged making different food choices as an obsessive eating habit – a disorder even – where some foods were deemed ‘bad’ and others ‘good’. The people I met who lived like this didn’t see it or describe it like that, but neither could they explain to me exactly how it made them feel in a way that I could understand. It goes without saying that it’s pretty challenging to experience what it’s like to be in someone else’s body. If I really wanted to know and understand why anybody would eat that way out of choice, rather than necessity, I realised I would have to give it a go for myself. I also noticed that people who’d made what I would have called ‘unconventional’ food choices, based on how different foods ...
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