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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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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.

When frustrated, my choice of food is dictated by what's handy.

Michael M. Bates: My Side of the Swamp

1 posted on 10/18/2005 2:49:48 PM PDT by Mike Bates
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To: Mike Bates

Steak, chips & cake is what's for dinner tonight. I guess I have some "issues". ;-)


2 posted on 10/18/2005 2:51:08 PM PDT by Millee (As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!!)
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To: Millee
Don't we all. Somehow, I knew you'd be checking in on this thread, Millee.
Uncle Bill
3 posted on 10/18/2005 2:52:24 PM PDT by Mike Bates (Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
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To: Millee

What does it mean when I want

to have my cake and eat it too?


4 posted on 10/18/2005 2:53:45 PM PDT by PaulaB (alles ist meine Freunde wohl...........)
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To: Millee
What does it mean if I have turkey for Thanksgiving? LOL!
5 posted on 10/18/2005 2:53:55 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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To: Mike Bates
So if you eat a well balanced meal, you must be totally screwed up angry, frustrated, stressed, lonely, divorce bound person? What a bunch of crappola.
6 posted on 10/18/2005 2:56:30 PM PDT by Proud2BeRight
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To: Mike Bates

Where ever you go, I will follow. You purposely taunt me with such threads! ;-p


7 posted on 10/18/2005 2:57:56 PM PDT by Millee (As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!!)
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To: Proud2BeRight
With an attitude like that, you obviously need a major dose of the Great American Answer for Practically Everything: Counseling.
8 posted on 10/18/2005 2:58:16 PM PDT by Mike Bates (Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
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To: PaulaB

Means you're a tramp. ;-)


9 posted on 10/18/2005 2:58:57 PM PDT by Millee (As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!!)
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To: Millee

I'm a big believer in giving folks what they want. Within reason, that is.


10 posted on 10/18/2005 2:59:16 PM PDT by Mike Bates (Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
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To: Mike Bates

There's always a catch with you.


11 posted on 10/18/2005 3:00:07 PM PDT by Millee (As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!!)
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To: Mike Bates
They do not mention Vegetarians, But if they did it my go like this:

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).

Vegans - Militantly ardent group commonly infiltrated with psychopaths. Insist that such a diet is healthy despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary (see: mirror). Firmly believe that the world would be a better place if everyone did as they did (see also: moveon.org). If you do not ascribe to their way of thinking you are a sadly perverse individual not worthy of their consideration.

12 posted on 10/18/2005 3:00:22 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: PaulaB
What does it mean when I want to have my cake and eat it too?

I think that qualifies as "self-abuse". ;-)

13 posted on 10/18/2005 3:00:55 PM PDT by andy58-in-nh
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To: Millee

Weasel Words 'R Us.


14 posted on 10/18/2005 3:00:56 PM PDT by Mike Bates (Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
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To: Mike Bates
My favorite meal is jalapenos, mushrooms and onions sauteed in olive oil and then wrapped up in slices of swiss cheese.

Does anybody care to psycho-analyze my meal? I fear that I have issues.

15 posted on 10/18/2005 3:01:29 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (What Would Howard Roarke Do?)
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To: Michael.SF.
It's coincidental that you bring up vegans, etc. A while back, some gal emailed me and asked if I'd ever considered how my non-veggie eating habits had influenced my political views.

Busted.

16 posted on 10/18/2005 3:03:24 PM PDT by Mike Bates (Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
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To: Michael.SF.

AAHHH! I'm a Dean supporter.
Quick get me some meat!


17 posted on 10/18/2005 3:04:05 PM PDT by baker_girl (You are all winners,except those of you who lose.)
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To: SamAdams76
I fear that I have issues.

Not to mention gastrointestinal distress.

18 posted on 10/18/2005 3:04:25 PM PDT by Mike Bates (Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
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To: baker_girl

Howlin' Howie recommends salami, as I recall.


19 posted on 10/18/2005 3:05:26 PM PDT by Mike Bates (Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
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To: Mike Bates

The article is from Australia thus I believe "cakes" is not what was think of as cake. It's probably cookies or maybe crackers. Or whatever. And somehow we still speak English, eh? ;)


20 posted on 10/18/2005 3:07:30 PM PDT by newzjunkey (CA: Stop union theft for political agendas with YES on Prop 75! Prolife? YES on Prop 73!)
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