Today is Sunday, and as my readers will know, there are some days that I need a break from the lunacy of politics and the mental masturbation that comes with doing analysis……

Plus it is the day after Xmas with all the food and drink and all the over-indulgence, this post is appropriate….

New course!  Thanx to Salon.com…..

First, he’ll have to get over the resistance to this counter-intuitive notion and the anger of the six or seven still-employed magazine food editors in America. I mean, isn’t the whole point of food porn to make you drool in your lap and want to tear into a pot pie? Yes, Tierney explains, but there’s a difference between the psychological phenomena of “sensitization,” which is when picturing that hot, steamy pot pie makes you want it, and “habituation,” which is when you get over that desire, satisfying it. What Carey Morewedge (I find it impossible to not say his full name) found was that people can bypass their desire and trigger habituation to food. But to do so, you can’t just imagine having it in front of you; that leads to sensitization. You have to really, concertedly imagine yourself in the process of eating it. A bunch of it.

In his experiments, subjects were shown photos of 30 M&M’s, one at a time, for three seconds each. Others were shown photos of 30 cubes of Kraft cheddar, one at a time, for five seconds. Afterward, the M&Mers still liked M&Ms, but ate fewer than they would normally. The cheesers still like cheese, but also ate relatively less.

Cheese choice aside, the psychologists concluded that the phenomenon was, in fact, habituation. The pictures didn’t actually turn people off of those foods, they just didn’t feel like eating much of them; their desire had been tempered. And, notably, the subjects didn’t feel “full,” nor were they less likely to pig out on foods they hadn’t been staring at, further suggesting that the phenomenon was related specifically to the stimulation of the particular food the subjects were picturing themselves eating.

There are about as many ways to curb ones appetite and to give one that body that makes men or women weak to see…..soon you will be writing down what you eat, the weight and then you will weigh your poop and see how far you are behind to keep that perfectly tuned bod….you will have an exercise coach, a nutritionist, a dietitian and mostly likely an on-call shrink…..and all it will cost you is your sanity and your love life…..

This may not be the best approach….I mean show real porn to a sex addict and they will knock you down getting out the door to find something or someone to scratch their itch……show a stoner massive drugs in use and you will most likely be harmed trying to keep them from a connection….this may have a similar and unwanted consequence……come on…look at a 5 Guys bacon cheese burger and then tell me you do not want one…….or for that matter a couple more…..if you really want to influence people, then show them vids or photos of some broad puking after she has eaten…I do not know anyone that would want to eat after that…..

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