Eat to live!

 Time was when there used to be grannies in the family who would have simple but highly effective remedies for typical illnesses such as stomach upset or its other extreme, that is, not enjoying food at all! Soon  such grannies were replaced by family doctors, kind, considerate, curing with simple remedies.

Come specialists and medicine as well as food habits became technical so much so that terms like bumilia, anorexia became household names. Princess Diana was a great help in this process! Actually, as in the West, there is an obsession now with looks, hence on bodily shape. Hence such extremes as either obsessing over food or not eating at all.

In a way, these disorders are, as Pavlov, yes, the one about the mouse and food lever in a cage or about dogs drooling, proved in his Nobel winning research that it is 'classical conditioning' that controls such responses, an observation much discussed in the cognitive-behavioural discussions.

Now, however, neither specialists nor even the googling as an alternative to  medical expertise matters! The AI doctor cum self medicating patient is already here, and may be proved by the "bromism patient."

This gentleman is a shining example of how half baked knowledge is a danger. This sixty year old man consulted the ChatGPT, and replaced sodium chloride, salt with bromide. It had dangerous consequences as he started suffering from bromism which is a condition marked by hallucinations, et al. As this practice was common in the nineteenth century, it is also calld the Victorian disease. The patient, almost near death, had to suffer the psychiatric ward as well.

In other words, the receipe to a happy and healthy gastronomical satisfaction is to eat to live. Nothing "obsesses" in such a case. You need no extreme diets that have a yo-yo effect on weight gain. Actually, the traditional lunch/dinner plate from Maharashtra is the best. Well, food is the real medicine in a way. Yes, sure one should indulge the taste buds now and then. Yes, it is necessary to make our guts strong enough to stand the street food now and then.

But never live to eat! It leads to terrible obsession with weight, and hence with grams and milligrams of protein and fat and the BMI, and so on. Most importantly, never follow the ChatGPT for advice about food! Better to remember that it is still a student, hence prone to mistakes, right?

Pratima@Actually, I intended to write about the glories of the Indian Space mission as August 23 is the Space Day. Yes, india is making very confident strides in the space. What I like about India's space walk is that it is ready to take along other countries in this journey as proven a few years ago when the Indian shuttle carried along other specimens, too, including those from advanced countries! We have already celebrated Shubhanshu Shukla in our blog. Hence better to avoid the repeat as there is a surfeit of such information!