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There’s No Need To Be “Hangry”
Hunger is not an emergency but a meaningful conversation starter with your body
I’ve been thinking about hunger.
In our western lives, we have engineered every moment to avoid discomfort. We go right from our soft beds to our automatic coffee makers in our climate-controlled homes. To our temperature-regulated cars and on to our swivel chairs in our manufactured offices.
At the first sign of hunger, we swing into a drive-thru or hit the closest vending machine, because why should we ever feel one tiny bit of discomfort?
But what if this constant comfort is weakening our bodies and stealing our power to adapt?
What if hunger became our friend, a beautiful sentence in a wonderful conversation, to be cherished, embraced and understood?
If for some reason we can’t find something to stuff in our mouths, we get irritable, weak and crappy feeling. THIS is how the word “hangry” was invented. (I think “hangry” was coined by the makers of Snickers bars, but I have no proof of that.) Today though, it’s practically a medical condition!
The Snickers campaign and many other messages from the main stream have convinced us that we must have sugar and we must have it NOW.
