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Food cravings.

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If anyone has the time to go to the Science Museum in London, there is a new interactive exhibition starting tomorrow about food cravings.


From the flavours you learned to love in the womb to the very next bite you take, your appetite has been shaped by food. Through personal stories, fascinating objects and cutting-edge science and technology, Cravings explores how food affects your body, brain and eating habits.


http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/Plan_your_visit/exhibitions/cravings.aspx
 

Thanks for that, I haven't been for years now, might take teenager during half term next week ??
 
I watched a program about taste and such only last night and it mentioned the link to early or even womb experiences of taste and how it can affect us later on. Fascinating indeed.

The sad part is that it means it will take a generation to cure the taste buds or brain rather of the population from going after the sweet stuff.
 
The taste and olfactory system are closely inter-connected. The olfactory system is one of our oldest nerves and is part of our limbic system, that is our basic brain. Smell is closely related to memory and cognition (danger and pleasure) and remains one of our most undiscovered senses yet. It is common when you taste or smell something you can relate it to deep specific memories from long ago. Fascinating stuff. I want choccy biccies now lol
 
I watched on BBC1 where they were at the Science Museum.
The cutlery and crockery, including shapes and weight and colour can affect our appetite too.
They also said that when we smell something cooking, i.e. burgers we crave them but if we were to smell another scent like rose petals it could decrease our desire.
 
Well of course Catherine, burgers are to be eaten and rose petals, well not sort of my edibles....lol
 
Some people see colours when using other senses too, I think it is called synethesia (spelling suspect) and is a bizarre phenomenon
 
I would throw in that the opposite applies too. When I was 5 a school secretary made me eat macaroni cheese as nothing else was left to choose from and vomited it all up over the canteen floor. Since then I have never ate any form of pasta as I consider it disgusting. Even 41 years later it would probably taste yummy but that taste, smell, sight and memory are fixed and probably for good.
 
eddie1968 said:
Some people see colours when using other senses too, I think it is called synethesia (spelling suspect) and is a bizarre phenomenon
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No it's not. All Wednesdays are blue for example, that is a fact. I thought everybody knew that.
 
Cheese I always crave cheese ...., I would love crisps , but I restict myself ...to now and them just a few ....reduced fat ones for me ...

I like london to , sounds Interesting ....

I still can't work the underground out though ...
 
Cheese, don't mention it lol...yummy. In my pre-diabetes days I loved chips n cheese from the takeaway lol, alas fond distant memories lol
 
My earliest experience in the womb is my twin sister giving me a right hook lol
 
That sounds interesting. I want to go up to the big city for a few days later in the year, I used to love mooching about various areas. Son lived in West Ealing for a while, and when I was working and on a national union committee we had meetings four time a year so I used to go up and stay and extra night or two and just wander around. I really miss that. Maybe I'll try and get on one of the pensions committees so I've got an excuse to go. Went to see Les Mis with one of the Scottish delegates and all I could think was that I had to sit through another couple of hours. I hated it!
 
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