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Originally Posted by Bruce Paine
Well, Annemj, since like a compass there are many directions one can go, for the same token, one have food effect how they think, feel, or believe; or have how they think feel or believe affect their choices of food, and maybe a bit of both or in a cycle of one causing the other, causing the one causing the other, and so on.
Which do you think comes first: thoughts or feelings?
Thank you, very much.
Bruce Paine
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Hard to say what comes first or that the two can be disconnected. To have a feeling, there has to be some brain processing of a stimulus. For example, the "feeling" of hunger is prompted by physical reactions, those reactions causing a CNS response that sends messages to the brain, and then the brain tells you to "feel." So from a purely scientific sense and "thought" in the strictest sense -- a brain processing of data -- thought probably comes first. If you are talking about concious thought versus feeling, feeling probably comes first. Using the prior example, an infant does not have to consciously realize it is hungry. Rather, it may just feel discomfort and have a purely emotional reaction to that hunger such as crying without being cognizant of why it is uncomfortable.
It is without a doubt that food can impact our immediate behavior. People get cranky when hungry. People with hypoglycemia are notoriously more hostile and impatient when their blood sugar drops. I just think that to say that meat-eaters are more likely to be warmongers or religious fanatics may be a bit extreme, since in reality, it is more likely that certain types of people opt for certain lifestyles and eating habits.