You’ve heard it all before the old sayings about how food fuels life and how you are what you eat. So I was wondering is there a connection between food and temperament? Of course I’m not saying that a carrot or a piece of beef will determine if a fellow is mellow or callous , but rather what I am saying is can the food in which we consume ‘influence’ our inbuilt behaviours.
I mean think about it? Take a look at some of the most common phenomenon:
- Children are active and playful by nature, give them an overdose of sugar and they go into hyper overdrive mode.
- A woman going through the pains of her monthly cycle is often irritable and akin to a dam ready to break at the slight tension. If she consumes too much coffee, all we can say is watch out!
- The controversy over the BARF diet and its link to aggressive behavioural patterns in dogs
Thus given the ‘facts’ above is it safe for me to deduce that to some extent food does influence the way we feel or act? And in that same sense can I also say that a person whose behaviour is to be insensitive, petty and vengeful is fuelled by the conventional processed commercial food she consumes without a second’s thought?
There are so many chemicals and additives contained within, who know what effect they have on an already troubled mind and calculative soul?
But on the other hand, if that same person went on an organic and natural diet, perhaps just perhaps there might be some positive effect on his behaviour? Perhaps by being less plagued/irritated by the invisible effects of consumed chemicals the person’s mind is clearer to act. Is it possible?
I find people who live on a purely organic diet to be lighter in spirit and cheerful in soul. No they aren’t saints because they still have their tempers and oddities but they aren’t in extremity like others that I know off – others that eat a staple diet of fast food, ice-cream and sweets (lots of it).
Now all of this is just purely based on my observation (of the people that surround me at work) so feel free to agree or disagree.
