06/28/2022
Over the past years, we’ve lost our sensory connection with food.
Do you smell the apple before eating it? How do you decide if a mango is ripe?
This article talks about how in a modern society, we lost our sensory connection with food, and that can create problems for our health. Eating is one of the most important thing to a healthy life, as we always promote “mindful eating” in traditional Chinese Medicine, we encourage everyone taking their time eating, smell the food, pay attention to the flavor and how the body feels when you eat.
“One of the most striking things about eating in the modern world is that we do so much of it as if we were sense-blind. We still have the same basic physiognomy as our hunter-gatherer ancestors, yet much of the time, we switch off our senses when choosing what to eat.”
“Our sensory disconnect from food is both cause and consequence of the fact that so many of us have poor diets.”
“Try to know your food with your ears, nose and hands as well as with your eyes. Smell it, touch it and look at it before you taste it.”
The long read: To eat in the modern world is often to eat in a state of profound sensory disengagement. It shouldn’t have to be this way
