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This is why you don’t know what to eat
Between social media, lifestyle trends, and constant pressure to lose weight, some of us don’t even know what food we actually like any more.
Food is fuel. But before that, it’s a way to nourish our bodies. But before that, it’s a means for humans to gather and socialise. But before that, it’s a means to stave off those pesky hunger pangs. But before that, it’s a new picture for your feed or video for your story.
Making decisions regarding our diets is more complicated now than ever before. Our supermarkets can paralyse us with choice, meal delivery apps make even a takeaway feel stressful, and don’t even start on the menace of MyFitnessPal.
It’s not enough to just like the taste of a foodstuff now. Eating anything can come alongside questioning the food’s origin, its ethics, whether it’s good for us, and whether it will look good enough to photograph. We can begin to change our tastes depending on which internet circle we are trying to impress most, or which diet trend we are trying out.
All the external, and now internalised, pressure can make the simple enjoyment of food strangely difficult. But why?
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