Eating is meant to be pleasurable
Here's the conundrum: We are meant to enjoy food. Our brains evolved in such a way that we feel pleasure from eating foods that are good for us--sweet (fruit), salty (our bodies NEED natural salt), fat (fish, wild animals). Food manufacturers create packaged foods that intentionally set off our natural pleasure centers with concentrated amounts of (guess what?) sweet, salt, fat. Think of literally every type of junk food out there; they all fall into those three categories: sweet, salt, fat (sometimes in various combinations of the three). The problem is, when you eat an apple, it's filled with tons of nutrients and fiber that actually makes you feel satisfied. Processed foods are stripped of all nutrients, so you don't get the satisfaction. You get the pleasure centers in your brain lighting up from the salt, fat, sweet, but you don't feel satisfied, so you keep eating. Now, because this processed food is immediately pleasurable, some of us discovered that when we're stressed, we can eat the stuff and feel better right away. Exactly in the way alcohol can make some feel "better" almost instantly. Then, exactly in the way some people lose the power of choice over alcohol and cannot stop themselves from drinking, we lose the power of choice over food and cannot stop ourselves from eating. Once I realized I lost control over my actions, I had no option but to seek out some power greater than myself upon which to rely. It works. I don't care whether you call it God, higher power, or nature; after all, it is nature itself that made it pleasurable to eat--that's an irrefutable fact. So by relying on God, I return to my natural state and eat only natural foods, which is satisfying both immediately and over time.
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