Ok, so I told myself that I wouldn’t get into movie reviews in my blog, but I saw this outstandingly important documentary/movie called Food Matters, and it is a documentary that everyone needs to see! I definitely wouldn’t call this a horror movie, but it is horrible what we seem to be doing to ourselves and the food that we put into our bodies(most of us). This documentary goes into what we are doing wrong as a people, what some of us are doing right, and the effect of our actions.
“Let Thy Food Be Thy Medicine, And Thy Medicine Be Thy Food.” a statement made by Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine. What Hippocrates seemed to mean was eat nutritionally sound foods and your body will take care of itself, and that is the whole point of this film, when properly maintained by providing it with the proper fuel the human body will run without fault and combat most disease. Now this film makes no illusion that when catastrophic disaster strikes the body that medication is not required, all of the professional physicians and nutritionists and naturopaths admit that is necessary for medicinal intervention.
This film presents commentary from a wide variety of professional physicians, nutritionists, naturopaths, professors, authors, and other authorities; Ian Brighthope, Jerome Burne, Charlotte Gerson, Dan Rodgers, Andrew W. Saul, David Wolfe, Victor Zeines.
This is a film about your body and what you put in it, it’s about how we are destroying the soil and what grows out of it, it’s about how all of the has affected you and is affecting you, and what we all can do about it. This is not something that you want to miss!
Ever wonder why when your kissing someone you’re attracted to you don’t want to stop? It’s kind of like potato chips; you never want to stop at just one. Some would call that passion; others in the scientific community would call that bio-chemistry mixed with a good dose of old fashioned psychology. Let’s take a look at this, and perhaps propose a little experiment.
Now, as you may know we are all really just bio-electrical engines composed of bio-chemical components…..when you break us down, that’s really all we are, even our emotions are a component of our production of hormones. When you kiss someone, your body release a hormone call Oxytocin into your brains environment (DeAngelis, 2008), some call this the ‘Love Hormone’, but certain scientists have discovered that this is the hormone that creates a feeling of ‘trust’ in a person, that warm, safe feeling when your around someone you love or trust. Of course feeling trust for someone is a good feeling, it makes us feel warm and happy inside….and our bodies naturally crave these happy, warm feelings….and we always want more of them.
Now here comes the experiment proposal I promised you;
We will use 10 people (5 men and 5 women) as our experimental group, 10 people who we are sure have NEVER met each other.
We will use 10 people (5 couples) as our control group, 10 people who we are sure know each other and have stated that are attracted to each other.
The purpose of this experiment is to determine if the act of kissing someone ACTUALLY causes you to want to continue kissing them or if it is the act of kissing someone you are attracted to that causes you to want to continue kissing them.
Methodology:
The methodology behind this experiment is simple, first we would have 5 pairs(1 man, 1 woman)from the control group enter a plain bare room containing two plain wooden chairs(without meeting each other first), ask them to kiss once, for 5 seconds. After each couple finish’s kissing, they will be asked to enter separate rooms and be requested to rate their desire to continue kissing their control partner on a scale from 1 to 9, and how much they trusted this individual.
Second we would have 5 couples (1 man, 1 woman) from the experimental group enter a plain bare room containing two plain wooden chairs (these are individuals who are knowingly attracted to each other), ask them to kiss once, for 5 seconds. After each couple finish’s kissing, they will be asked to enter separate rooms and be requested to rate their desire to continue kissing their control partner on a scale from 1 to 9, and how much they trust this individual.
After both groups finished rating how much they wanted to continue kissing the other person, we would have the same 5 control couples (1 man, 1 woman) enter the same separate rooms as before and then repeat the experiment be requested to rate their desire to continue kissing each other and level of trust in their control partner on a scale from 1 to 9.
Discussion:
It would be interesting to see if the control group (those couples who have never met each other) actually have more of a desire to kiss each other the second time they are alone, rather than the first time when they first meet. Of course there will be certain people who are repressed and uncomfortable kissing someone they don’t already know very well, and I would hope that such people would choose not to participate in an experiment such as this. I would imagine that the control(attracted)group would have little to no reduction to their level of trust in each other or their desire to continue kissing each other. I would also imagine that if the experimental group didn’t kiss more than once, that they would report an increased desire to continue kissing and an increase in level of trust.
So, on to answering our original question…..why is kissing like potato chips, why can’t we stop at just one? It all comes down to addiction. Our bodies become naturally addicted to fat;
…the discovery that we have specific oral sensory receptors that allow us to sense the ‘fattiness’ of food – a function that makes a lot of sense, given that dietary fat provides the densest source of caloric intake. (Sharma, 2011)
Now, Nicholas DiPatrizio and colleagues from the University of California, Irvine, have discovered that these oral dietary fat sensors activate a powerful ‘addiction-type’ mechanism in your gut that serves to promote further fat intake – their study is published in a recent issue of the Proceedings of the US National Academy of Science. (Sharma, 2011)
If that is true, then the reason why kissing is like potato chips is obvious, we as human beings are attracted too anything that feels good, anything that feels safe(for many of us it becomes almost an addiction)…..and if the presence of oxytocin while we are kissing someone causes us to feel good, safe and happy (Fiore, 2006), we are going to want to continue doing what causes those feelings.
I would be interested if anyone has heard of any more research on this subject, please leave a comment.
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Watch the movie Food Matters, it will change the way you look at food, your doctors, the medical profession and the government.
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Ok, so I told myself that I wouldn’t get into movie reviews in my blog, but I saw this outstandingly important documentary/movie called Food Matters, and it is a documentary that everyone needs to see! I definitely wouldn’t call this a horror movie, but it is horrible what we seem to be doing to ourselves and the food that we put into our bodies(most of us). This documentary goes into what we are doing wrong as a people, what some of us are doing right, and the effect of our actions.
tes, the father of modern medicine. What Hippocrates seemed to mean was eat nutritionally sound foods and your body will take care of itself, and that is the whole point of this film, when properly maintained by providing it with the proper fuel the human body will run without fault and combat most disease. Now this film makes no illusion that when catastrophic disaster strikes the body that medication is not required, all of the professional physicians and nutritionists and naturopaths admit that is necessary for medicinal intervention.
This is a film about your body and what you put in it, it’s about how we are destroying the soil and what grows out of it, it’s about how all of the has affected you and is affecting you, and what we all can do about it. This is not something that you want to miss!
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