drtbear1967
Musclechemistry Board Certified Member
Emotion (noun) means: “instinctive or intuitive feeling as distinguished from reasoning or knowledge.”
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Science (noun): “the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.”
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One can immediately establish that these two nouns are very different. One relies on fact, one does not. One accounts for physiology, one does not. One is objective, one is subjective. And when learning about nutritional processes, one is useful and one is useless. -
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One may lambast oneself for ‘being very bad’ after eating one cookie or one small scoop of ice cream. So much so that emotional self contempt dictates that 3 further cookies and the remainder of the ice cream tub ‘may as well be consumed’. But in doing so, science is ignored. -
This one cookie represents 240 calories. And the small ice cream scoop 150. Awareness of these facts and the ease in which both could form part of a successful nutritional day, would stop logic from being overridden with fear. Furthermore, appreciation of such facts may prevent needless self-loathing and multiple further consumptions of both. Such consumption resulting acquisition of thousands of extra calories. -
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Eating this cookie/ice cream/lettuce is one tiny episode. It’s a minuscule part of an overall lifestyle which defines the composition and health markers of an individual. No food is bad. No food is good. It is merely different.
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You cannot change anatomical human processes. But you can nurture irrational, unhelpful, emotional beliefs that are untrue. If you let them go, they can transform into informed, educated, rational beliefs that are scientifically unquestionable. In doing so, one would be leaving emotional hindrances behind. And pressing on with the tools they need to practically heal their relationship with food and achieve their compositional goals
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Science (noun): “the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.”
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One can immediately establish that these two nouns are very different. One relies on fact, one does not. One accounts for physiology, one does not. One is objective, one is subjective. And when learning about nutritional processes, one is useful and one is useless. -
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One may lambast oneself for ‘being very bad’ after eating one cookie or one small scoop of ice cream. So much so that emotional self contempt dictates that 3 further cookies and the remainder of the ice cream tub ‘may as well be consumed’. But in doing so, science is ignored. -
This one cookie represents 240 calories. And the small ice cream scoop 150. Awareness of these facts and the ease in which both could form part of a successful nutritional day, would stop logic from being overridden with fear. Furthermore, appreciation of such facts may prevent needless self-loathing and multiple further consumptions of both. Such consumption resulting acquisition of thousands of extra calories. -
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Eating this cookie/ice cream/lettuce is one tiny episode. It’s a minuscule part of an overall lifestyle which defines the composition and health markers of an individual. No food is bad. No food is good. It is merely different.
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You cannot change anatomical human processes. But you can nurture irrational, unhelpful, emotional beliefs that are untrue. If you let them go, they can transform into informed, educated, rational beliefs that are scientifically unquestionable. In doing so, one would be leaving emotional hindrances behind. And pressing on with the tools they need to practically heal their relationship with food and achieve their compositional goals
