There are similar movements all over the world, with people becoming increasingly proactive. Even in the cities, growing your own is enjoying a boom and awareness of the importance of local food is on the increase.
Local eating for global changes.
Scientists discover that the stomach has its own brain; our digestive system thinks and controls us.
Eating habits and the key to good nutrition: are you really full?
What information from our food does the body process and how?
Professor Gerald Hüther of Heidelberg University on how the brain works:
Professor Gerald Hüther, one of Germany's leading neurologists, talked to us recently about the brain and learning. He said: the brain is not just about thinking, that is just what we always believe. Learning doesn't happen through the brain alone. Every act of learning is automatically associated with a feeling.
Sylvia Schirmer, sees it through the eyes of a storyteller.
If we transpose these neurological findings to the act of eating, it is easy to figure out that we need stories about food just as much as we need our daily bread. Without stories - in other words, if it is without an identity - food is not perceived correctly, not classified, not embedded in our minds. That explains the phenomenon of our affluent society: we eat and eat and are never full. The feeling of being full, of being truly satisfied, just does not happen as it theoretically should.
Are we living on a diet of sensual deprivation, constantly undernourishing our senses?
Freiland discusses the following theory: people eat with stories, we need stories to eat and be able to store the act of eating in our minds.
20.01.2010
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