I was in a doctors surgery, awaiting my turn (seems to be happening a lot recently) and reading one of the magazines. These are generally woman’s magazines – don’t know why, just seems to be the way things work. An article that I actually read was a book review about an ex-alcoholic wine taster…
One quote caught my eye, she said that when she gave up, she started craving sugary foods as her body had become used to getting large amounts of sugar from breaking down the alcohol that she was no longer drinking. I’ve noticed that I’ve become a lot more of a chocolate lover over the years. Before I was more of a savoury/crisp man. I’d never noticed a correlation between chocolate love and my reduced alcohol intake, but after reading that I started to wonder.
To be honest I’m not to sure that there is a correlation, my love of chocolate sprung to life when I was still drinking quite a lot at uni, but it’s still interesting to know!
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I came on to look at your video clip from TED as you said it was working now, and you’ve scrubbed it! But I saw an interesting program on TV about a piano playing cat and found the video clip on youtube. The owner thought the cat might be a reincarnation of a great musician and said how frustrating it must be to go from having ten fingers to two paws. I was interested in her theory as i once had a weird dream that a scarlet o’hara look-alike in a big flouncy dress got reincarnated as a mole! So if you happen to know anybody in danger of being reincarnated as an animal…!!??**()++!
Brilliant – that just made my working day a lot brighter..
I think food correlations must be quite complicatd because we have been watching a series called supersizers go… on tv where a couple of people live for a week on a diet from a particular historical period as gleaned from cookbooks of the time, and they have a medical before and after to see what happened. The majority of the diets compared to today had loads more calories, masses of meat and masses of alcohol so they were basically always thinking they would end the week with constipation, bad breath and having put on weight. But the outcomes have been quite variable. Ithink the restoration diet (ie Charles II) was like that but they have just done the Tudor diet and they both lost weight. So I ended up thinking that what they ate with it, food combinations and so on must make a lot of difference. eg they complained there was very little fruit and veg in the restoration diet whereas the tudors seemed to often cook their meat with dried fruit and spices and would have salads with flowers in them and so on. So I bet there is nothing simple about your growing liking for chocolate – perhaps you need to study whats in Tesco ready meals!