Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
The amount of food we can put away on Christmas day is as impressive as it is excessive. Chocolates and mince pies are fair game 24/7. Savoury nibbles are needed shortly after breakfast, to soak up the mid-morning livener. And then, shockingly soon after lunch and all its trimmings, as soon as someone breaks out the pickled onions, I'm off again. And so it continues.
One reason we can keep putting it away like this is a phenomenon called sensory specific satiety (SSS). We can have enough of one sort of food, but still have an appetite for something else. It lies at the root of the expression "pudding stomach". It is why the trend for small sharing plates is a restaurateur's dream and a slimmer's nightmare. It is why kids suddenly declare: "I don't like it," while eating a food they definitely like.
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeands...hristmas-feeling-full-food-and-drink-appetite
One reason we can keep putting it away like this is a phenomenon called sensory specific satiety (SSS). We can have enough of one sort of food, but still have an appetite for something else. It lies at the root of the expression "pudding stomach". It is why the trend for small sharing plates is a restaurateur's dream and a slimmer's nightmare. It is why kids suddenly declare: "I don't like it," while eating a food they definitely like.
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeands...hristmas-feeling-full-food-and-drink-appetite