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RainMakerJMR t1_j9y46gw wrote
Reply to ELI5: Why is unhealthy food delicious? by TheFek
You’re making a bad assumption. There is no such this as good or bad food. Period.
What there is are good and bad choices pertaining to food. It’s more math based than anything. If you have 2000 calories a day in your food budget, and you are going to bed eating only 1400 calories, 600 calories of ice cream is a good choice because your body is under calorie and fat requirement for the day. If you’re already at 2200 calories for the day, an organic whole grain avocado sandwich with extra virgin oil and organic apples is a bad choice and will cause weight gain because you’re over budget.
High calorie foods taste good because evolution wise they help us survive better. 99.9% of human history people were malnourished, and high calorie high fat foods meant survival.
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Reply to ELI5: Why is unhealthy food delicious? by TheFek
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Sometimes_Stutters t1_j9y2vk2 wrote
Reply to comment by fh3131 in ELI5: Why is unhealthy food delicious? by TheFek
Also, foods with high amounts of sugar, salt, and fat aren’t “unhealthy”. We need all the to live. It’s more to do with the quantity.
codykonior t1_j9y1hqt wrote
Reply to comment by CrunchWater_32 in ELI5: Is "non toxic" the same as "food grade". Was just wondering as I caught my kid munching on play-doh in his room. by elevatorbeat
Mmmm. Forbidden air.
Raemnant t1_j9y1bi9 wrote
Reply to ELI5: Is "non toxic" the same as "food grade". Was just wondering as I caught my kid munching on play-doh in his room. by elevatorbeat
My grill cleaner at work is non-toxic, but it would certainly still give you the runs if you drank it
diffy_lip t1_j9xz466 wrote
Just to add to confusion, if you listen to major third above the root it sounds (if conditioned already) "happy" but it actually sound "sad" bellow root! Likewise with minor third, it sounds happy bellow root as oposed to "normal" sounding sad above the root.
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Ramoncin t1_j9xy7u9 wrote
Reply to ELI5: Why is unhealthy food delicious? by TheFek
We're hardcoded to enjoy eating stuff with too much sugar, salt and fat because thousands of years ago those foods were not that common and our body requires them.
Now they are way too common, but our bodies still crave them.
vortexvagina t1_j9xxiu6 wrote
Reply to comment by jrallen7 in eli5 how does light get reflected?does it get reflected in all directions or in the direction where it came?and does light gets weaker everytime it gets reflected i mean does the reflection gets weaker even time it also reflects? by Substantial-Drop-726
Oh wow!! Science can be like poetry! Just beautiful.
JoushMark t1_j9xwl5p wrote
Reply to ELI5: Is "non toxic" the same as "food grade". Was just wondering as I caught my kid munching on play-doh in his room. by elevatorbeat
Non toxic: You should not eat this, but the ingredients won't poison you at the amounts present in this item.
Food grade: Meets FDA standards for use in making food intended for people. May not be safe to eat the entire container. Food grade dye is safe when used as the instructions show. Eating an entire container of it may make you sick.
nim_opet t1_j9xwfw7 wrote
Midwest is very unstable weather-wise because it’s wide open to both wet and hot air from the Caribbean and cold and dry air from the arctic. In the winter the jet stream drops down to lower altitude, and due to climate change there are signs that it’s actually weakening which allows for more frequent/deeper blobs of arctic air dropping far south; those fronts collide with warm air, push it up, drain it of moisture and once stabilized bring cold but sunny days.
Devil_May_Kare t1_j9xw0bh wrote
Reply to eli5 what exactly is D.I.D? by SilentCountessVT
When you're a small child in the process of growing up, one of the things you do is integrate together all your emotional states and brain functions into a single cohesive identity for yourself. If something very bad happens to you at that age, sometimes the process of integration doesn't happen properly, and you end up with two or more emotional states that don't feel like being the same person, with different sets of memories and different sets of cognitive abilities accessible in each. That's DID. There's a few related dissociative disorders (such as OSDD-1B) which are fairly similar, but differ in what's shared and what's separate between the different emotional states.
Also, some people seem to end up in a state similar to DID from prolonged overuse of certain drugs (e.g., ketamine) or by having a childhood that wasn't quite bad enough to develop DID followed by something very bad happening to them in adulthood.
Devil_May_Kare t1_j9xv8yo wrote
Reply to comment by veemondumps in eli5 what exactly is D.I.D? by SilentCountessVT
The friend could also have OSDD-1B, which is similar to DID but doesn't have amnesia between alters.
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greatdrams23 t1_j9xtujd wrote
Reply to ELI5: Why is unhealthy food delicious? by TheFek
I worked with a child who was literally starving to death and couldn't eat for more than a minute a day (complicated reasons, parents refused tube feeding and courts were siding with the parents, at least temporarily.).
The medical advice was to feed the highest calorie creamy dessert we could find to get the most calories inside her in the shortest time.
Advanced-Owl-7914 t1_j9xqsgf wrote
That's a great question! It's certainly possible that the correlation is biologically innate, as it does appear to be universal. However, it could also be that we've developed an association between certain musical patterns and certain emotions over time. It could be a combination of both. It's really fascinating to think about!
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Civil-Scratch9319 t1_j9xop4z wrote
That's an interesting question! I'm not sure why our brains make that correlation but I think it's fascinating that it seems to be universal. It's definitely worth exploring further to see if there's a biological basis for it.
AlvaMarquardt t1_j9xol3e wrote
Reply to ELI5: Why is unhealthy food delicious? by TheFek
It's definitely a sad coincidence that some of the most delicious foods can be bad for our bodies. Still, it's worth it to enjoy them in moderation!
Senior_Ninja2157 t1_j9xoijc wrote
That's an interesting observation! It could be because the midwest is closer to the equator, so the sun is stronger in the winter and more likely to bring warm days.
nrsys t1_j9xobis wrote
Reply to ELI5 Why does depth and time play a role in how waterproof something is? by Feisty-Location-5708
Place something underwater, and the pressure of the water all around it will try to push the water in to any small gaps or spaces in the casing.
Depth is important because the deeper underwater you are, the greater the pressure you experience will be - so the deeper you go the harder the water is trying to be pushed into the device.
Time matters because once you reach a pressure where fluid can leak in, this still takes a while to happen. If your gasket is 1mm thick, and the water will be able to push through that seal at a speed of 0.1mm/minute, then your device will stay dry for up to ten minutes, but after that point the water will potentially have compromised it.
So when manufacturers test a device, they choose a pressure and time to test for and to rate the device as.
MaynardKuhic t1_j9xn37i wrote
Reply to ELI5: Is "non toxic" the same as "food grade". Was just wondering as I caught my kid munching on play-doh in his room. by elevatorbeat
No, "non toxic" and "food grade" are not the same. Eating play-doh is definitely not a good idea and can be dangerous.
meukbox t1_j9y4pc6 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in ELI5: The Giggle Loop. You know when you can't stop laughing uncontrollably at something that isn't that funny, or at a funeral and you suddenly get the giggles. Why does it happen, what triggers it, the psychology behind it? by Pochusaurus
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