You can sometimes fully understand what you’re really looking at isn’t food you can eat, but brain processes and made you hungry. The pictures are tricking with your brain to make your tummy rumbled. Enticing, colorful and mouth-watering food pictures will leave crave in any period.
According to the one study reported about 100 per cent of young women and almost 70 per cent of young men have experienced ‘Food Porn’ over the last year. Also, around the time, there have been more than a million posts on Instagram using the #food and #foodporn. It covers most of us, doesn’t it?
Firstly, we invest less time or effort sharing pictures of stuff that we experienced by feel, hear or smell. Starts turning out, there are many super-legitimate reasons why we love to look at food porn.
While it might appear that the power of this ‘internet grazing’ is increasing popularity through a broad cross-section of the population, there is a very real risk that this influx of appetizing food photos can have a deleterious effect on some of our eating habits. It is also well known, after all, that food advertisement enhances customers’ appetite for food, thereby growing their intake of whatever food happens to be beyond control. This is true in the cases of children and adults. This would appear that ‘visual hunger’ may well trigger certain habits correlated with food intake in a reasonably automatic manner.
Even back in the day before we had grocery stores and went away, people were hunter-gatherers, we had to buy our own food to survive. To achieve so, we depended on our eyes — we utilized our sense of sight to recognize where food was and how to access it. The visual impact has a significant effect on the human brain. Our minds began to love the food site and the dopamine receptors were stimulated as we saw it, as it meant we needed to feed, which meant we‘d have enough food to live a little longer. It was an essential physiological reaction to survival. Today, we lives in a very different environment. There’s food everywhere. We don’t have to track down and collect our food. We should either head to the supermarket or order a pizza. But our minds are always wired for hunter-gather days, so this justifying why half of your Instagram feed is porn stuff.
Also, food porn gives rise to desire. It taps into our predominant “I want that” brain. So, food porn isn’t just food photos. It also increases your hunger constantly, as a result, it leads one to eat some of the wrong sorts of calories.
Another study showed that looking at food photos can turn people’s attention away from the actual thing — but only when the food in the photo has a look great to whatever the real thing is now being eaten. Example when a person watched the photos of sweet snacks and afterward ate salted snacks, they appeared to enjoy salted snack less than who had seen pictures of sweet snacks like desserts.
Whenever we see food pictures, our minds can’t help but indulge in visual simulation — we visualize ourselves consuming the food. We also need to devote certain intellectual energy to avoid all such technological temptations. In other terms, we can’t keep the thought of consuming the food out of our mind when we see it, so in several situations, we‘re going to prefer an unhealthy diet rather than a nutritional option.
All is good in moderation, but such cravings will show arise when someone tries to satisfy themselves, so that’s when it’s not going to be healthy. It is important to note that this is not a causal link, but a trend in the manner that social networking contributes to obesity.
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