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mosch writes "Humans have been trained to yearn for ice cream in the same way as Pavlov's fabled bell. I won't be impressed until they can make a healthy human male yearn for a nice healthy vegan dinner."
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I suspect, if this research wasn't sponsored by some advertisement company. This is great technology for commercials. Everybody needs just a little training, and then, wherever they show appropriate fractal images on TV, all the people will run into the shops for their ice cream, destroying anything in their way
I wonder if this would work for other things than food as well.
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contributes to the obesity problem in america? The constant programming every 5 minutes that food makes you happy? Reminding you to eat ever 5 minutes? How does that affect your brain?
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Yep. There is one fun exercise a class can do to a teacher if they want:
Decide on some desired behavior (the typical example would be standing by the door, and/or standing with the back towards the class). Then, whenever the teacher does something that is a bit like the desired behavior - moves a step or two towards the door, for example, some people should perk up a little, smile a little more and show a little more interest in what the teacher says. If the teacher moves away from the desired goal, do the opposite - lose concentration, look less happy and so on.
_If_ the class does this unobtrusively, so the teacher does not conciously notice something going on, you are likely to have that teacher finishing up the class standing next to the door, talking over his shoulder.
In social animals, such as humans, the most powerful reinforcer of them all is social interaction. It works far better than any other rewarding stimulus.
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The only vegan/vegetarian I know who is healthy recently confided in me that she is not really a "full time" vegan. She says she is to stay with her current boy friend, but she eats meat when the cravings get too bad.
Most of the folks I know have serious health problems of some kind. One individual whose immune system is failing was order by his doctor to start eating some kind of meat (beef or chicken). Instead of obeying the doctor's orders, he quit going to the doctor. He is constantly sick and has horrible allergies. He is also developing issues with his nervous system due to lack of B vitamins.
Considering how hard it is to achieve a balanced diet as a vegan/vegetarian and the health issues that constantly come up by not eating a balanced diet, why do people keep beating their head against the wall with it.
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You ought to see all the supplements these guys take! We are talking between 50 to 100 pills a day. All to get the same nutrition set I get from single steak. And, as an example, Jack LaLanne is not a true vegan. He eats fish and eggs as well as consuming supplements made from other animal products.
Just because you process them down and change their appearance, does not change the nature of what they are consuming.
"All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power." - Ashleigh Brilliant
Vegans are a group of new-age diet gurus who tell everyone who will listen that they are evil for eating meat.
I know a lot of vegans, have conversations with them regularly, and not a single one has told me that I am evil for eating meat.
If you meet a vibrant, glowing person who tries to sell you on a vegan diet, they're killing animals somewhere.
We're all killing animals somewhere. Most vegans tend to kill fewer animals than others. That's not always true, of course. A person who regularly hunts for food likely kills far fewer animals than the average first-world country buy-it-at-the-store vegan.