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Re-thinking Dessert
Dr Eman Zaky • January 13, 2021
Your Relationship with Your Favourite Dessert
Before I decided to study nutrition as a speciality, I never knew that the ideas you think about the food you consume immediately become reality in your body. For example, if you feel guilty for eating your favourite desserts, this initiates a series of inhibitory responses in the nervous system that travels to the digestive organs, which reduce your calorie-burning efficiency and slow digestion. Your favourite dessert will eventually be stored as body fat via enhanced insulin and cortisol action, which will increase your feeling of guilt and distress.
Being worried about the self-image and eating guilt-infused foods are viewed by the brain as stressors and are automatically turned into extreme, unhealthy chemical reactions in the body. You have to put the mind and feelings in the right place to avoid this sequel. Train yourself to look at food as a rare experience that must be enjoyed.
