Posted on 02/12/2021 5:19:00 PM PST by RummyChick
Bad experiences with food, like a dodgy curry that makes us ill for days, triggers a switch in our brains that means we never want to eat it again, a study reveals.
UK researchers have managed to replicate the effect of a negative experience on eating behaviour, using sugar-loving snails as models in the lab.
They used 'aversive training', which involved tapping the snails on the head when sugar appeared, as a proxy for food poisoning in humans, while being filmed.
Aversive training flicked an appetite-suppressing switch that meant the snails refused to feed on the sugar, even when hungry.
The experts think something similar is happening, leading to 'persistent physiological change' that's specific to a certain food for the rest of our lives.
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Drambuie ....
That would be me an avocados / guacamole. While I am not actually allergic, I tell my waiters that I am just to double down on the no guacamole on my plate.
I was eating some almonds the evening I got appendicitis. The almonds didn’t cause it, but it was about 20 years before I could eat almonds again.
And then there was the time I got permanently conditioned against tequila. That was over 40 years ago, and still working.
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I spent the night in the university hospital getting rehydrated.
I have never eaten roast beef hash or corned beef hash since.
Same thing happened to me with mussels.
Bad experiences with food, like a dodgy curry that makes us ill for days, triggers a switch in our brains that means we never want to eat it again, a study reveals.Hmm. A drinking spree with two lesbians in Buenos Aires has left me with a severe revulsion for tequila ever since.
Strawberry frozen yogurt pops. I gorged myself on them one Christmas and it was 20 years before I could even tolerate the smell of yogurt again. And rum balls. I went with my parents to a Christmas party my babysitter’s family threw. I ate so many I puked. I was 25 before I could drink a rum and Coke and not get queasy. Other than that, I could eat nuclear waste and not get heartburn.
I think its called intolerance. The wife has the same adverse reaction to oysters tho she formerly loved them.
OTH, I used to get sick from mushrooms and the mere thought of mushrooms. Now I love them.
Happened to me with Tequila.
LOL. I didn’t read all the replies before I hit send—so many victims of tequila!
I could not drink or even stand the smell of Rum for almost twenty years after getting sea sick while drinking copious amounts of the stuff on a sailing charter in the Virgin Islands during college. Then one day a switch went off in my brain and suddenly rum was not only tolerable, I had cravings for it. The cravings wore off in a few weeks.
You see things with Jagermeister
That happened to me with shepherds pie when I was a kid. After I tried it for the first time (and loved it), I got carsick because we were on a very long trip on windy road. For about twenty years after that I couldn’t even look at a shepherds pie.
Had that effect with tequila for years. Got over it though!
>And rum balls.
Sounds painful.
> Tequila
Me too! Used to like it back in the day till I went to a party and made it through a half bottle or so. That was a little over 50 years ago and it wasn’t until around 10 years ago that I allowed myself to have a taste. It was OK but I’ve never seen fit to consume it instead of a top shelf blended Scotch.
Same thing happened with Molson. Went a bit overboard on one occasion and lost the desire to consume any more, also over the course of two or three decades. No problems with any other type of beer, just Molson. The aversion went away just like with tequila.
On the other hand I used to love cashews. One day I must have gotten one that had not been roasted properly and my tongue broke out in little red zit-like bumps that were very painful. I believe that there is a substance similar to poison ivy that is found in the raw nuts. To this day, also several decades later, any consumption of cashews brings back the zits. I seem to have developed a permanent physical allergy to them.
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