Temptation is not to resist, not to suppress, it is a love rooted in our genes! This article will tell you why we all have a hard time saying no to high-calorie meals!What are high-calorie foods? Fragrant fried chicken, crispy and delicious French fries, sweet and soft cakes, oily barbecue... No pictures are needed, these words are enough to make your heart skip a beat.
There are generally two modes of operation of the brain:
1.Collection mode: When you walk into the supermarket and glance at the shelves, this is an automatic collection mode, you will think, which food is better? Which food is more nutritious?
2.Survival mode: the so-called "famine mode". This is a more instinctive subconscious, which is similar to the state of our ancestors in the long fishing and hunting era when they were looking for food. High-calorie food is more attractive to us, which can increase satiety and reduce our fear of hunger.
A study has shown that when we are hungry, our brains automatically switch to survival mode: eat as much as you can, high-calorie foods are better, the more the better! In action, you are hungry, and you will instinctively choose a lot of high-calorie food in the supermarket! Cornell University's Food and Brand Lab did just that.
It has been observed from research that hungry people do buy more high-calorie foods at hypermarkets, because when hungry, the human brain involuntarily craves high-calorie foods and the body knows they can bring more energy.
If you go to the hypermarket to buy food when you are hungry, you will end up leaving you or your family with the high-calorie food you bought at the time for the next few days. If you want to lose weight smoothly, the first step is not to diet, especially skip a meal. This method will arouse your survival instinct and strengthen your desire to eat.
Once you can't stand it and break your precept, you will not only eat more, but also start with high-calorie foods. Moreover, in the process of weight loss, along with the decline of the basal metabolic rate, after eating high-calorie food, the weight will quickly return to its original.
Why are there so many dessert shops in the world? Why do people generally like to eat sweet foods? This is because most natural foods are very sweet when they are mature, and monkeys and apes like this sweet food very much. So in many cases it is difficult for us to avoid the temptation of sweets.
In the industrial age, just adding some sugar substitutes to the food can make the food taste very tempting. So, to a certain extent, the craving for sweets is also a compensation for ourselves caused by our own genes.
Humans have experienced tens of thousands of years of farming civilization, and their diet has always been dominated by carbohydrates, supplemented by meat and fat. Even 30 years ago, our life was the same, we usually eat relatively simple, and we can only eat rare foods such as meat and eggs during the festivals.
Thousands of years of eating habits have already infiltrated our genes. When encountering these high-calorie foods, it is still like a festival for the stomach and intestines, and the brain will also secrete dopamine that brings pleasure and satisfaction. When you are hungry, you must eat enough at a time, otherwise your brain thinks you might starve to death next time.
