Sunday, February 18, 2007

“I always eat my broccoli!”--Not!

Okay, I had broccoli for dinner last night.
Can't say it's one of my favorite foods. I don't hate it though.

I guess a more interesting question for me is:
If a kind of food that I don't like is essential to my well-being, should I eat it anyway?

On one hand I believe that if you are in tuned with your body, it will tell you what you need to eat.
However, most of us are too over-worked, over-studying to listen to what our bodies really need. I don't understand why when I feel stressed or over-worked, I would have cravings for junk foods. The other day, in our OM theory class, we learned that having too much damp food is bad for the spleen, and ice-cream is probably one of the most damp foods (sweet, creamy, cold). Immediately after the discussion, I had cravings for Ben&Jerry's Chocolate Fudge Brownie Ice Cream!
Now, shouldn't I be repulsed by overly-damped foods upon learning how bad they are for me?

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