Food As An Addiction

[plokhoe]

i was talking with my friend and we came up with this stupid theory and then realise it started to make sense so here goes.

I have used a heroin addict to compare to.

If a heroin addict has a child and still injects through pregnancy then the child will become addicted to heroin and will need it as soon as it is separated from it's mother. With an addiction since before birth coming off the drug would be dangerous if not fatal to the person. So if food was not a necessity when we were "created" and is essentialy a drug then of corse having children with this addiction the addiction will get stronger. So i was wandering if over generations you could bring people off food!!!!!

When i have told people this theory they have challenged it with things like "but we need the nutrition from the food to stay alive"
Well my answer to that is a heroin addict will suffer from a lack of the chemicals in heroin and could die like a human could from starvation.

So i was thinking if methodone is a sibsance to bring heroin users off could a simliar thing be created for bringing people off food?

The only person who i has taken this seriously was my chemistry teacher and he thinks i could have a career out of this so someone thinks it could work!!!

please tell me your thoughts on this

[Quantum Flea]

The fact remains that the human body needs energy input to keep functioning. So if you ween off food but have an alternate energy input, then your idea would work.

But why would you want to do that? Food is great - people enjoy eating.

[Lord Testicles]

So tecnically you will need to keep the mother of food for 9 months and still produce a healthy child? thatts going to be rather difficult if not impossable. But i suppose if the human body didnt have a digestive system it could develope ways of absorbing the energy from the sun like plants. lol green people :blink:

[Dark Exodus]

Don't pregnant women need to eat more food?

[plokhoe]

i don't suggest they stop eating food i suggest people could be brought off it over generations

[h&s]

Are you an idiot?

When i have told people this theory they have challenged it with things like "but we need the nutrition from the food to stay alive"
We do. Full stop.
Every part of food is vitally important. You need proteins for your body to work (your DNA works by synthesising proteins), you need carbohydrates to store energy, you need fats in every cell in the body.
And if you put all we needed in a pill, we wouldn't take in the fibre we need that stops cancers from forming in our bowels.

[RedAnarchist]

His/her chemistry teacher must have been humouring him/her then! :lol:

[Taiga]

This guy is just kidding.
This nonsense can't be serious. ;)

[bed_of_nails]

I have been wondering if I am addicted to Pizza... I honestly eat it 3 meals a day, and if I go for a few days without it I crave pizza and only pizza.

[Donnie]

I think you're theory is proved wrong in the case of Africa where they get hardly any food due to exploitation. There have been generations and generations of people in Africa getting no food and I fail to seem them in the present day being a fully healthy human being.

Btw no offence but are you on crack comrade? Because this is the sort of an idea a crack addict would think up when on a high.

[spartafc]

I totally agree. I'm not going to feed my children any food.

[apathy maybe]

I once read a really intersting short story about tomators. I haven't found the original on the web, but here is a subsitute (obviously ripped off from the original) (search for tomato) http://www.lotrplaza.com/istari/elen/TheEl...2/ElenOct02.asp (http://www.lotrplaza.com/istari/elen/TheElenOct02/ElenOct02.asp)
here is another subsitute http://www.dragonwolves.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8624

[Vallegrande]

For one, I'm sure that hunger reducing drugs are beneficial at times, but even the drug users have to eat something in their lifetime to stop from withering away.

[Clarksist]

And if you put all we needed in a pill, we wouldn't take in the fibre we need that stops cancers from forming in our bowels.


So drink down your pill with a tall glass of metamucil.

[Elect Marx]

Originally posted by [email protected] 7 2005, 10:37 PM

And if you put all we needed in a pill, we wouldn't take in the fibre we need that stops cancers from forming in our bowels.


So drink down your pill with a tall glass of metamucil.
Stop it; you're making me hungry :P

[Forward Union]

Originally posted by [email protected] 3 2005, 01:26 PM
i don't suggest they stop eating food i suggest people could be brought off it over generations
And what would you replace food with? All (known) life breaks down into two groups, Producers and Consumers.

Producers make their own energy from things like the sun. (eg plants)

Consumers eat other life forms to gain their required energy.

Humans are quite obviously consumers (although breathing also generates a small amount of energy)

So if we stop consuming how do you suggest we get our energy? suck up the rays?

[Organic Revolution]

Originally posted by [email protected] 3 2005, 07:26 AM
i don't suggest they stop eating food i suggest people could be brought off it over generations
and then have people addicted to unantural pills? ill keep food thank you very much.

[Vallegrande]

The only way for that to happen as I see it, is that the body would have to produce its own protein, vitamin c, lysine, fats, etc. That would take countless generations to accompish. It reminds me of the Buddhist wise men who would not eat, as Buddha was also practicing. But Buddha got hungry so he ate, and realized that earthly desires (food) are there as an expedient for our happiness. So the food is here because it is a reflection of our bodies desires. Without them, we do not exist.

[RebelOutcast]

Well here is my two cents:
There are a few possibilities here, the first is that you're an idiot and you actually think this theory ( I use the word loosely ) could actually be proven and that your chemistry teacher is also an idiot for thinking the same.
The second possibility is the same as the above except that your teacher is humoring you.
The third is that you were just posting here as an example of what happens to the human mind during boredom.
Just incase you do believe this theory provable think on this, the human body needs many nutrients and minerals, one of these is amino acids which are the building blocks of proteins, your body aquires amino acids through the digestion of proteins that exist in, for example meat and fish.
If you don't eat your body starts to digest itself but even then it cannot produce vitamins such as Vitamin C, if you provide the things that the body cannot produce then all you will accomplish is your death as your body will digest itself.
The need to eat is a necessity of survival, not a fucking addiction.
Next time come up with a theory without massive flaws.

[Raisa]

What good is calling someone an idiot for trying to make a theory going to do?

Show some respect for yourselves.

Anyway to the original poster, I dont think your theory was thought through enough but its good that you are thinking in different ways- mad props for that.

[Anarchist Freedom]

Originally posted by [email protected] 3 2005, 08:24 PM
I think you're theory is proved wrong in the case of Africa where they get hardly any food due to exploitation. There have been generations and generations of people in Africa getting no food and I fail to seem them in the present day being a fully healthy human being.

Btw no offence but are you on crack comrade? Because this is the sort of an idea a crack addict would think up when on a high.
Please stop with the crack references people. Ive seen people on crack they sure as hell dont talk much while theyre high. Now meth oh boy I could see something like this conjured up on meth.

[Carmen]

I once heard that there was this Indian guru dude that hadn't eaten for 70years. He meditated and stuff. To prove it they locked him in a room for a couple months and he didn't eat, i dont know whether he drank though...but he said something like he could live off oxygen...i'm not sure whether it was a hoax though. cause if it wasn't then i'm sure he's be really famous and not on some crappy daily television show.