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I often see people around me who encounter unpleasant things and will choose to go out to eat a big meal, and sometimes they will say to me:
"If you're sad, go eat!"
So does eating really make the mood better?
We will discuss this issue together today.
People who like food immediately become happy when they eat and get pleasure from food, which is easy to understand, just like any of us can feel happy when doing things we like and are interested in.
When foodies eat food, they secrete happy hormones in their brains to make their mood happy.
So, can people who are not foodies also get a good mood in the act of eating?
That's what we're going to focus on.
When Valentine's Day comes, many people like to give each other chocolates, and it can be said that this is the tradition and habit of this show.
But you may not know:
In chocolate, there is a substance called theobromine, which has a anti-calming effect and is easy to cause excitement, and there is a substance called phenylethylamine, which gives people the same feeling as the substance secreted in the brain in love.
Therefore, eating chocolate will produce a feeling of love, and people naturally think of romantic and sweet love when they mention chocolate.
This example seems to show that certain foods can indeed make people feel different and mood, as long as we eat things contain special substances, and these substances have the same effect as the substances secreted in our body when our emotions are generated, then eating these things can affect our mood.
Going back to the example mentioned at the beginning, can eating when sad and sad can affect the mood?
Thinking like this has a certain impact, even if you are not a foodie, but the people take food as the sky, you always have to eat to replenish energy, eating when you are sad is a way to divert attention, just what you eat is what you usually like to eat, the mood is naturally better.
In addition, there is a situation where some people eat something that can change their mood because these things are bound to a specific mood in their memory.
For example, a person who eats snail powder will be homesick, because her hometown is in Liuzhou, Guangxi;
A person who eats lollipops will be sad because her last boyfriend used to coax her with lollipops;
A person who eats coconuts will feel free and happy, because she went to Sanya, Hainan province alone that year for a very free and happy holiday...
Why is that?
Because people's sense of smell, taste, hearing and other cells have memory, when they come into contact with similar feelings, the memories related to them will emerge accordingly, and after the memory comes out, it will naturally produce a corresponding mood.
So according to this theory, if we want to get a good mood by eating, then we can eat something when we are very happy, and this kind of thing will become your happy food, so that when you are plagued by negative emotions, you can improve your mood by eating such things.
However, do not have a sense of dependence on food, otherwise it will become a "food maniac", food mania and shopaholic principle is similar, that is, to alleviate the depressed mood by constantly eating, and if you continue to go out of this way, you will fall deeper and deeper, and finally cause adverse effects.
Therefore, eating can indeed improve the mood to a certain extent, but we must also pay attention to the appropriate amount, too much.
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