Post #3 Are you what you eat?

In our class slides going over food, a few slides touch upon fat preference, how humans prefer fats in food, like ice cream and fast food. But as humans I believe we might prefer fats, but look at people who are vegan or vegetarian. When I was in high school in cooking class, we watched super size me. A documentary on Morgan Spurlock, a man who only ate McDonald meals for 30 days straight  Below I posted the documentary (yes its on you you tube and might gets some ads) But before he went on this diet, the man was vegan, so forcing his body to eat all those foods that it was not used to, caused him great pain. Now here is my question to all you fast food going out there. Do you think that eating fast food for 30 days can causes all theses problems? I know my body is not living the style of someone who is vegan so me eating a burger is not gonna kill me. Do you think this documentary was bias, why wouldn't a man who was vegan who know consumes vast amounts of fast food become ill. What are your thoughts?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKQGAv8gtBA

Preference for food

Ever since I could remember, my parents have criticized my terribly picky eating habits. This class has opened my eyes to a new understanding of where I developed my pallet. As the class illustrated, an individual's preferences for certain foods come from both innate and conditioned backgrounds. With that being said, my parents do not have the right to disapprove of my food preferences, since their lack of exposure to a variety of foods limited my interest in it. This is a conditioned concept discussed, known as the mere exposure effect. A person given food repeatedly will naturally increase their interest in that food. Growing up, my parents did not open me up to any spicy foods, and now as a result,  I will not go near anything spicy. Additionally, on the topic of food, I was extremely shocked by the video discussing the bottomless food bowl. I could not believe that people truly eat an average of 73% more soup when they have a bottomless bowl. I decided to look into the topics of food consumption in regard to the mind, I found a new type of motivation for eating certain foods. There is a great video that describes the way food interacts with brain functioning: