I thought this was a very interesting read.. I really believe most figure, fitness and bodybuilding athletes suffer from this..
Read this article and let me know your thoughts
by Ryan Andrews
What is gluttony?
Gluttony is the excessive consumption that deprives another being of a life-giving necessity. Gluttons devour more, leaving others with less. It’s immoderation.
Beyond consumption, gluttony describes worship of food and deriving excessive pleasure from it.
Gluttony also extends into material goods and other physical pleasures. “-aholic” is the suffix attached to the glutton’s “meal” of choice.
Those with excess body fat often carry the burden of gluttony, but weight doesn’t necessarily indicate gluttonous patterns.
“Healthy” eaters can be immoderate too. Just as someone can be angry about the right thing but express it in the wrong way, someone can eat healthy food in a way that is gluttonous.
The more natural and necessary the activity (e.g., eating and sex), the more pleasurable it is. If we didn’t get pleasure from eating and procreating, we’d have a population of 100 and suffer from rickets.
Gluttony creeps in when our desires spiral out of control and get excessive with food. This is challenging in modern society, since our appetite is subject to external authoritative psychological influences. For more, see All About Appetite
Why is gluttony important?
If someone is preoccupied with food, they tend to neglect relationships with others. This includes relationships with significant others, society and the more intangible dimensions of life. Gluttony resembles any form of disordered eating, since they all reflect disordered relationships.
Generally, gluttony can include:
- Not savouring a reasonable amount of food
-Eating outside of a prescribed time (mindless eating)
-Anticipating eating with preoccupied longing
-Consuming costly foods (eating lavishly simply for the purpose of conspicuous consumption)
-Not being content with “common” foods; always seeking delicacies (or, perhaps, Supersizing)
-Paying too much attention to food (which includes paying too much attention to how we look – which, they argue, can become idolatry
Facts
-The U.S., we waste about 20-25% of all food purchased for the home. This equates to about 474.5 pounds per year.
-Added sweeteners comprise nearly 20% of the U.S. diet.
-Americans eat over 220 pounds of meat per person, per year.
-The U.S. diet is primarily processed and animal foods.
-The average American consumes 12.28 lb of chocolate per year.
-Nearly 70% of those above the age of 18 years in most industrialized countries drink alcohol. Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis is the 12th leading cause of death in the U.S.
-A study of 19-30 year olds revealed that 45% of men and 27% of women reported heavy drinking in the past two weeks.
-Today, 18,000 kids will die because they are malnourished. That’s 6 times the number killed on September 11th.
Full article
http://www.precisionnutrition.com/all-about-gluttony-1
Read this article and let me know your thoughts
by Ryan Andrews
What is gluttony?
Gluttony is the excessive consumption that deprives another being of a life-giving necessity. Gluttons devour more, leaving others with less. It’s immoderation.
Beyond consumption, gluttony describes worship of food and deriving excessive pleasure from it.
Gluttony also extends into material goods and other physical pleasures. “-aholic” is the suffix attached to the glutton’s “meal” of choice.
Those with excess body fat often carry the burden of gluttony, but weight doesn’t necessarily indicate gluttonous patterns.
“Healthy” eaters can be immoderate too. Just as someone can be angry about the right thing but express it in the wrong way, someone can eat healthy food in a way that is gluttonous.
The more natural and necessary the activity (e.g., eating and sex), the more pleasurable it is. If we didn’t get pleasure from eating and procreating, we’d have a population of 100 and suffer from rickets.
Gluttony creeps in when our desires spiral out of control and get excessive with food. This is challenging in modern society, since our appetite is subject to external authoritative psychological influences. For more, see All About Appetite
Why is gluttony important?
If someone is preoccupied with food, they tend to neglect relationships with others. This includes relationships with significant others, society and the more intangible dimensions of life. Gluttony resembles any form of disordered eating, since they all reflect disordered relationships.
Generally, gluttony can include:
- Not savouring a reasonable amount of food
-Eating outside of a prescribed time (mindless eating)
-Anticipating eating with preoccupied longing
-Consuming costly foods (eating lavishly simply for the purpose of conspicuous consumption)
-Not being content with “common” foods; always seeking delicacies (or, perhaps, Supersizing)
-Paying too much attention to food (which includes paying too much attention to how we look – which, they argue, can become idolatry
Facts
-The U.S., we waste about 20-25% of all food purchased for the home. This equates to about 474.5 pounds per year.
-Added sweeteners comprise nearly 20% of the U.S. diet.
-Americans eat over 220 pounds of meat per person, per year.
-The U.S. diet is primarily processed and animal foods.
-The average American consumes 12.28 lb of chocolate per year.
-Nearly 70% of those above the age of 18 years in most industrialized countries drink alcohol. Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis is the 12th leading cause of death in the U.S.
-A study of 19-30 year olds revealed that 45% of men and 27% of women reported heavy drinking in the past two weeks.
-Today, 18,000 kids will die because they are malnourished. That’s 6 times the number killed on September 11th.
Full article
http://www.precisionnutrition.com/all-about-gluttony-1
