Thursday, November 11, 2010
Eating is a form of self medication.
Eating is a form of self medication.
It occurred to me that almost everything can be seen as self medication, ... given the plight that is called life by many?
This might be a helpful way of seeing things. I know it is not a new idea with respect to things like alcohol, but ...
The propensity of people to have strange eating habits leads me to think that it must have quite an evolutionary history. Indeed one can see it in many animal species. For example Ponies having a nibble at willow or bracken.
Though some of this is recorded in Herbals and such like, I wonder if someone has done a better study of what people with (say) certain illnesses like to eat?
Basically we should trust the human body a little more, to give us useful information.
cheers
martin
It occurred to me that almost everything can be seen as self medication, ... given the plight that is called life by many?
This might be a helpful way of seeing things. I know it is not a new idea with respect to things like alcohol, but ...
The propensity of people to have strange eating habits leads me to think that it must have quite an evolutionary history. Indeed one can see it in many animal species. For example Ponies having a nibble at willow or bracken.
Though some of this is recorded in Herbals and such like, I wonder if someone has done a better study of what people with (say) certain illnesses like to eat?
Basically we should trust the human body a little more, to give us useful information.
cheers
martin
