The reasons why you like different foods

I think you determine what to cook for dinner, what dish to order in a restaurant, or than to fill a basket in the supermarket? Relax as your instincts will decide everything for you! Taste preferences of residents of different countries, weird and wonderful, but there are foods that enjoy sustained popularity in all corners of our planet, whether it is unassuming in cooking Light New, conservative Europe or Asia, known for its gastronomic extravagance. Scientists believe that love, say for chocolate or legume, much deeper historically established culinary traditions. According to them, the passion of humanity for a particular food is inherent in homo sapiens by nature, which thus provide people with vitamins and substances necessary for normal functioning of the human body.

1. Clay cleanses the body of toxins

If you ever wanted to eat a handful of earth or clay, so your body needs to get rid of toxins, or... You are pregnant — many women preparing to give birth to child is known to have rather eccentric eating habits. In the 1990-ies in some countries even established selling this unusual "delicacy", because in the big cities to find land suitable for human consumption is not so easy.

Lately, experts are increasingly talking about the fact that the earth really helps to cleanse the body of toxic substances. Previously it was thought that the earth and clay eating only humans and macaws, recently, however, scholars note that this "kitchen" is popular among other animals, especially during the ripening of fruits, as unripe fruits and berries contain large amounts of toxic alkaloids. For example, to make an edible unripe potatoes contain solanine is the bitter and poisonous glycoalkaloid, the fruits should be coated with alumina. It has kaolin (white) clay, which neutralizes the bitterness and pull solanine from potatoes. So do not hasten to twist a finger at his temple, knowing that one of your friends one day ate some of the earth — he acted in accordance with the ancient instincts of self-preservation and health care.

2. Wanted beans or rice — you don't have enough protein


We need some amino acids such as lysine and methionine, the body itself can not produce, so they have to get from food. Lysine contained in legumes and methionine rich in wheat, rice and corn — now if you wanted to eat some of these foods, your body lack of protein.

Cereals and legumes are widely available in many food cultures of the world, first, because their combination is an excellent meat substitute, and secondly because it is damn delicious! The taste and aroma of beans and grains so perfectly in tune with each other that has long been considered — if not to use these products together, they contained lysine and methionine will not be absorbed by the body. Later this view was erroneous, but beans and grains are not diminished. The popular culinary Duo "beans-grains" that contain essential amino acids, suggests that the body tells the person what kind of food he "should" like.

3. Pull on the sharp, so you need to "cool off"



You probably noticed that in countries with a hot climate like incredibly spicy food is due to the fact that hot spices, especially chilli, provoke intense sweating, protecting the human body from overheating. Contained in savory foods alkaloid capsaicin stimulates receptors of the mouth and nasal cavity that is responsible for thermoregulation — they cause the person to sweat, getting rid of excess heat.

4. Milk tea saves from tannins



Contrary to many commercials, the black tea not so harmless drink. In it, like coffee, contain tannins — phenolic compounds, which make these drinks astringent and bitterness, and helps cleanse the digestive tract. The body reacts ambiguously to the presence of tannins, say in the morning after drinking strong black tea, you may feel nauseated. Fortunately, there are ways to soften the bitterness of coffee and tea to keep the stomach from over-activity of the tannins add to drink milk.

I must say, the adult individuals of homo sapiens evolutionarily predisposed not to drink milk we can drink it just due to the fact that the human body for thousands of years have adapted to dairy products, to organize the production of enzymes needed for processing lactose. Individuals of other mammal species on attaining adulthood, cease to consume foods that contain lactose and if, say, a tiger drink milk, it would cause him digestive problems, while some people are known to also have lactose intolerance that can be called a kind of "digestive vestige". Impressive is the fact that mankind started drinking milk recently, but our taste buds have "suggest" that it can be used to reduce the activity of tannins.

5. The ice as a local anesthetic

Desire to include in your diet the ice is often experienced by people suffering from anemia. Of course, the ice itself can not meet the need of iron, but due to some reason it really helps is when lack of iron in the human body anemia start inflammation, accompanied by pain in the oral cavity. Ice does not allow to cope with the main cause of the disease, but it greatly reduces the pain, so if you occasionally want to chew ice cubes, is there a reason to think about switching in your diet foods high in iron content.

6. Ginger lust says about the heart problems

Ginger is one of the most useful condiments of plant origin. It helps get rid of nausea, relieves cough and helps with headaches. However, doctors say that even people not suffering from the above ailments, sometimes feel a strong urge to eat ginger. According to some studies, ginger reduces blood clotting, which can cause heart attacks, strengthens heart muscles and lowers the level of cholesterol in the blood. Thanks to the miraculous properties of ginger can serve as a healthier alternative to the much-vaunted biological additives with a three-digit price tags.

7. Coffee instead of Panadol

If you ate a lot of ginger, but the migraine persists, it makes sense to have a Cup of coffee — caffeine also helps with headaches and can even prevent its occurrence. Some doctors say about the dangers of frequent consumption of coffee, at the same time, others argue that it is possible daily drink two cups of this drink without risk to health. Caffeine allows you to relieve physical and emotional discomfort, besides, this natural stimulator is effective in the early stages of depression. According to some reports, many people with coffee, as strange as it may sound, ensure yourself a healthy sleep — the human body gets used to a certain amount of caffeine and failure coffee the person begins to experience sleep problems.

8. Love in chocolate


 

When the victorious March of the chocolate world was just beginning, he was nothing like the modern everyone's favorite treat. Cocoa beans were served on the tables of European nobility in the form of a specific bitter drink with spices and a lot of cups of this dessert was literally through the power of drunk aristocrats before the bakers had thought to add crushed cocoa beans sugar, although the indigenous peoples of the American continent has long been mixed chocolate with various sweet ingredients. Later the Europeans discovered chocolate milk and since then, the world was doomed to an all-consuming, undying passion for all types of chocolate desserts. What is the reason for the extraordinary popularity of chocolate?

Some say that "the fault" all contained in cocoa beans phenylethylamine — a chemical released in the brain when he is in love or feels happy. You've probably heard the expression like: "Love is like to eat a lot of chocolate." At the same time, for example, cheese contains phenylethylamine even more, however, its popularity does not go in any comparison with the universal love for chocolate.

Some experts attribute the "chocolate fever" with anandamide — analog of cannabinol, the primary psychoactive component of marijuana. Anandamide, which is also called "the molecule of bliss", elevates mood and reduces fatigue, although experts note that if a person wants to achieve the effect similar to the effect of marijuana, he will have to eat at least a kilogram of chocolate.

In addition to anandamide and phenylethylamine in cocoa beans theobromine is present — a substance similar to caffeine, which as we know, can cause dependence. What people love chocolate, scientists have yet to figure out, as it contains about 380 active substances. But is it really that important? Because love is irrational feeling and instead try to figure out its nature, better to just enjoy every bite.

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