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Cake-eaters 'sexually frustrated'
NEWS.com.au ^ | 10/18/2005 | NEWS.com.au

Posted on 10/18/2005 2:49:48 PM PDT by Mike Bates

EATING steak is a symbol of pent up anger, gorging on chips means you are stressed and filling up on cakes is a sure-fire sign that you are sexually frustrated. When it comes to betraying mood, it seems, you are what you eat.

A study has found that a person's choice of food is dictated by their state of mind and diners apparently seek out dishes to regulate how they feel.

Angry people turn to chewy foods while the sexually frustrated crave carbohydrate-rich biscuits and cakes.

Those under stress reach for salty snacks while people going through crises such as divorce tend to revert to the foods of childhood such as ice cream.

Jealous people often stack their plates indiscriminately - a consequence of having had to compete with siblings at the dinner table in childhood, say researchers.

The findings are the result of a US study of the eating habits of 500 people who kept diaries about their choices of meals.

Carried out as part of a study of addiction, it is thought to be the first to link individual foods with particular states of mind.

Cynthia Power, the Illinois-based psychotherapist behind the survey, said: "Food can be used to change feelings the person doesn't want to have.

"Only hard, crunchy mastication will suffice when someone needs to take out their anger.

"Alternatively, loneliness is artificially assuaged with bulky, fill-up-the stomach foods."


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To: Mike Bates

When frustrated, I beat the tar out of inanimate objects.

Catharsis is real whereas this study is a joke.


21 posted on 10/18/2005 3:07:59 PM PDT by Killborn (Pres. Bush isn't Pres. Reagan. Then again, Pres. Regan isn't Pres. Washington. God bless them all.)
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To: Mike Bates

One of my employees has a doughnut fetish. I'd rather not consider what that implies.

Regards, Ivan


22 posted on 10/18/2005 3:08:30 PM PDT by MadIvan (You underestimate the power of the Dark Side - http://www.sithorder.com/)
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To: newzjunkey
Cynthia Power, the Illinois-based psychotherapist behind the survey. . .

Last time I checked, we still spoke commonly used American English here in the Land of Lincoln. But just barely.

23 posted on 10/18/2005 3:09:29 PM PDT by Mike Bates (Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
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To: Michael.SF.
Vegetarians - Characterized by an overwhelming sense of guilt and desire to help others. Their belief that this diet is balanced and healthy is testimony to their lack of honest appraisal of a full set of facts (see also Dean Supporters).

I'm a vegetarian. It does have health benefits, but it's not for everyone.

Oh and I don't feel guilty about anything in particular.

Regards, Ivan

24 posted on 10/18/2005 3:09:58 PM PDT by MadIvan (You underestimate the power of the Dark Side - http://www.sithorder.com/)
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To: Killborn
When frustrated, I beat the tar out of inanimate objects.

You mean, like Democrats?

25 posted on 10/18/2005 3:10:40 PM PDT by Mike Bates (Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
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To: Mike Bates
What does my Swedish meat balls with spinach souffle and stewed apples say about me I wonder.
26 posted on 10/18/2005 3:11:11 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Warning: Not a Romantic or hero worshiper. Attempts to tug at my heartstrings annoy me... and I bite)
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To: MadIvan
One of my employees has a doughnut fetish. I'd rather not consider what that implies.

It implies around 50 pounds over what he/she should weigh I'd guess. Or perhaps he/she always wanted to be a cop.

27 posted on 10/18/2005 3:13:06 PM PDT by Mike Bates (Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Health food aficianado.


28 posted on 10/18/2005 3:13:45 PM PDT by Mike Bates (Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
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To: Mike Bates
only when I can find them :)
29 posted on 10/18/2005 3:17:39 PM PDT by Killborn (Pres. Bush isn't Pres. Reagan. Then again, Pres. Regan isn't Pres. Washington. God bless them all.)
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To: Mike Bates

He is overweight but not by that much. He always asks if the doughnuts are "squishy".

That's apparently a good thing if they are.

Regards, Ivan


30 posted on 10/18/2005 3:18:47 PM PDT by MadIvan (You underestimate the power of the Dark Side - http://www.sithorder.com/)
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To: Killborn

Hang out in either Hollywood or bad neighborhoods. They're everywhere.


31 posted on 10/18/2005 3:19:14 PM PDT by Mike Bates (Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
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To: Proud2BeRight

Dang right. I bet granola and tofu means inner peace, kindness, tolerance, and all that other kumbayah road apples.

Road apples - the number one product from granola and tofu eating commie hippies.


32 posted on 10/18/2005 3:19:33 PM PDT by Killborn (Pres. Bush isn't Pres. Reagan. Then again, Pres. Regan isn't Pres. Washington. God bless them all.)
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To: Mike Bates

MA. :)


33 posted on 10/18/2005 3:19:54 PM PDT by Killborn (Pres. Bush isn't Pres. Reagan. Then again, Pres. Regan isn't Pres. Washington. God bless them all.)
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To: Killborn

Ding, ding, ding.


34 posted on 10/18/2005 3:20:45 PM PDT by Mike Bates (Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
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To: Mike Bates

Ice cream is reverting to childhood foods? Most foods were started in childhood. Makes absolutely no sense. This whole study is a bunch of cr**. Wonder who got the bucks for this "gravy" train.


35 posted on 10/18/2005 3:20:45 PM PDT by Sacajaweau (God Bless Our Troops!!)
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To: Sacajaweau

Very likely a Federal grant was involved. They often are. The private sector is reluctant to fund jive.


36 posted on 10/18/2005 3:21:59 PM PDT by Mike Bates (Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
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To: Mike Bates

To paraphrase Freud, sometimes a steak is just a steak.


37 posted on 10/18/2005 3:25:49 PM PDT by Daralundy
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To: Sacajaweau
From http://www.addictionrecov.org/paradigm/P_PR_SP04/paradigmSP04.pdf

About the speaker: Cynthia Power is co-founder and co-owner of Life Enrichment Services, Inc.; a private practice in Wheaton, Illinois. She has worked with a variety of couples, families, and individuals in the greater Chicago area for 30 years. Cynthia is a trainer and consultant to a number of regional programs and agencies for the last 20 years, and has actively been presenting nationally and in Canada.

Agencies? Wonder which ones.

38 posted on 10/18/2005 3:28:18 PM PDT by Mike Bates (Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
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To: MadIvan
Well, as in all generalities, there are exceptions.

you may not feel guilty, but then your are......... madIvan.

;)

39 posted on 10/18/2005 3:31:20 PM PDT by Michael.SF. ('That was the gift the president gave us, the gift of happiness, of being together,' Cindy Sheehan")
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
What does my Swedish meat balls with spinach souffle and stewed apples say about me I wonder.

OK, I'll take that one:

Swedish meat balls - Lust. Obviously 'Swedish' conjures to the mind a scantly clad blond, blue eyed, busty beauty.

spinach souffle - Popeye/strength to pursue your Swedish dreams.

stewed apples - Damn!! That spinach souffle never works!!

40 posted on 10/18/2005 3:38:17 PM PDT by Michael.SF. ('That was the gift the president gave us, the gift of happiness, of being together,' Cindy Sheehan")
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