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Eating When Bored? Advice From the 16th Century A recent survey found that most people eat to stifle feelings of boredom, loneliness, and stress - rather than eating for fuel or enjoyment. More specifically, the survey, published in the BBC News, found that:
Eating when bored, lonely, or stressed leads to eating the wrong foods, binge eating, obesity, and food-caused diseases. Not an ideal scene. Food should be a pleasurable experience, and be the correct amount and type of fuel to run the body optimally. This will lead to the pleasure of health and a disease free body. This is what sixteenth-century Luigi Cornaro, a nobleman from Italy, discovered long ago. His story is fascinating: At the age of forty, Cornaro found himself terminally ill. He didn't want to die, so he began experimenting with changes in his diet and his lifestyle. Guess what? He lived to be 102 years, finally passing on peacefully in his sleep. Luigi was a writer, and after his dramatic recovery, he began to write extensively. His classic work, Discourses on the Sober Life, detailed his ideas about how society could be improved and how health could be preserved. Luigi explains, Sobriety is reduced to two things, quality and quantity. The first consists in avoiding food or drinks, which are found to disagree with the stomach. The second, to avoid taking more than the stomach can easily digest; and every man at the age of forty ought to be a perfect judge in these matters; and whoever observes these two rules, may be said to live a regular and sober life. In other words, in order for Luigi to live to 102 years of age, he followed these two rules:
By adopting these rules, Luigi says, "in less than a year, it rid me of all those disorders which had taken such hold on me, and which appeared at the time incurable." We have spent billions of dollars on gastric anti-acids, H2, and acid blockers (like Zantac, Tegamet and Prilosec) because Luigi's first rule - eating foods agreeable to your digestion - is not followed. We have millions with colitis, bloating, food allergies, etc. as well. Regarding rule number two, eating only what you need, obesity and diabetes are at epidemic proportions in our country! This is a direct result of violating rule number two. The wisdom of Luigi is understandable, but obviously very hard to do. Eating to satisfaction and not to excess means one must adopt and keep the attitude that food is fuel - not a just reward for a hard day or to fix boredom or a depressed mood. The data that this sixteenth-century Italian discovered has been proven over and over again by anti-aging specialists. It is interesting how relevant it is today. There are very few truths of health that haven't already been discovered ages ago. But how to apply it! So hard. At the end of the next article ("Improve Immune Function by Eating Less") is some advice on how you might accomplish this. Give it a try and let me know how you do with it.
Luigi Cornaro (1464-1566 a.d.) "Comfort and 'boredom'-eating rife."
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