How We Eat With Our Eyes and Think With Our Stomachs: Learn to See the Hidden Influences That Shape Your Eating Habits by Melanie Mühl & Diana von Kopp

Author:Melanie Mühl & Diana von Kopp
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Nutrition, Questions & Answers, Diet & Nutrition, Psychology, Reference, Cooking, Essays & Narratives, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9781615194247
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Published: 2017-11-01T20:43:52.620000+00:00

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The Feeding Clock

How can eating help you beat jet lag?

Imagine that you’re about to fly to London for a

conference and you’ve got a ten-hour flight ahead of

you. In economy. You shudder at the thought of it,

not just because you’re afraid of flying, but also

because you simply cannot bear the cramped condi-

tions. On top of this, you know that your physical

distress won’t improve once you’ve reached your des-

tination: For the next few days, you are likely to suf-

fer from headaches, fatigue, insomnia, dizziness,

and, above all, digestive problems. The more time

zones you cross, the worse your jet lag gets. When

flying west to, say, Tokyo or Hong Kong, you won’t

be hit as hard by this topsy-turvy feeling as if you

were flying east to London or Paris, but you will still

feel pretty rough. Regrettably, no jet-lagged traveler

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manages to look even half as beautiful as Scarlett

Johansson did in Lost in Translation, playing an

insomniac sitting by the window in her Tokyo hotel

room, watching the night fade away. Bill Murray’s

face, crumpled from sleepless nights spent tossing and

turning in bed, is significantly closer to the truth. So

what can you do?

Many strategies have been designed to rebalance

the body on landing. For years, people focused on

light as the most important factor in regulating our

circadian rhythm (our internal clocks), which is why

many travelers—afraid of light shock—don their

shades at baggage claim, even if it’s nearly sundown.

But there’s a second important factor, the feeding

clock. After studying mediating factors to the circa-

dian rhythm in mice, scientists discovered that we’re

regulated not only by the light we see, but also by

when we eat. When the researchers changed the feed-

ing times for the mice, the bacteria in their gut

became unbalanced. If the same goes for us, each

shift in mealtimes throws our internal clock out of

whack. The good news is that we can reset our inter-

nal clock by adjusting our eating time.

In the early eighties, biologist Charles F. Ehret of

the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois devel-

oped an anti-jet-lag diet, which needs to be started

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several days before the journey (east or west). The

crux of the diet is alternating feasting (meat) days

and fasting (salad) days. Caffeine is allowed only

between 3:00 PM and 5:00 PM. The underlying idea

is that the body is already confused before the jour-

ney has even begun. It’s an intensely stressful strat-

egy for the body; nevertheless, Ehret’s 1983 book

Overcoming Jet Lag sold like hotcakes. His son once

mentioned in an interview that his father had been

inundated with calls from people planning trips for

everyone from President Reagan to Aerosmith.

Later,

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