Huh! FOOOOOOD! I am going to talk about food, my favorite part of the human life (well who doesn’t). Everyone who will see me will think that I definitely love food, and that its part of me or I will possibly not live a day without having a glimpse of these precious nourishments. Well, actually they are correct. Maybe that’s why I am on the bigger world side, hahaha meaning I’m on the (what I like to call) ‘plus size’ side. I love food, eating is the best part of my day and having a great meal makes my life wonderful.
However, the thing is people are like me, we love to eat and there are people who can eat half rice or half of a rice cooker, unbelievable right? My point is everyone loves food especially when we are feeling emotional, stress, or even delighted. During these moments we seek something great food to eat, mainly sweets and salty food. That’s why these kinds of food are considered as ‘comfort food’. But before that, what’s comfort food? Why comfort food called comfort food?
Hence, according to”The Psychology behind Comfort Food” by Ryan Chang of Spoon University, the significance of comfort food is that it has the power to enlighten ones mood and that these work by creating positive and negative reinforcement, a process of conditioning that affect our brain to consume more of and crave for these comforting foods.
“…when we eat food, we receive positive reinforcement by obtaining physical sustenance along with great flavors and taste. Positive reinforcement is when we receive something, which leads us to want to continue the action that caused the effect (more happiness).
Additionally, we also receive negative reinforcement when we eat food to relieve stress, and we begin to associate eating comfort food with the lessening of a burden. Negative reinforcement is when something is taken away, which leads us to want to continue the action that caused the effect (less stress). After a period of time, our minds will be trained to seek out food as a way to deal with our problems in life. This process causes us to crave food, creating the idea of “comfort food,” said
Chang.
The above quote means that comfort food are food that what we crave to eat during our emotional or delighted moment may considered as comfort food because it increases our joyful feeling and decreases or eases our stressful feeling. Which I agree because I too, crave for food every time I am feeling down, happy or even bored.
Which the article “Comfort food Improve Moods” in Two Takes on Depression by Deborah Serani justify the article above that eating great foods that are associated to your awesome feelings will improves your well-being and lessen your loneliness and depression too. She also mentioned in her article that there is also physiological reasoning why these foods are considered as comforting.
According to Serani, “When you're living with depression, it's important to know that there's also a physiological influence to the food you consume. The chemical structure of what you eat communicates with your body, which can affect cognitsion, influence mood and physical body states.”
This means foods are like a drug that can change your mental and physical being. That there are elements of the food you consume has the characteristics that can change your mood and influences your physical body.
Maybe that’s the reason why food is considered comforting because it can help you to change your mood.
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