Restrictive eating and not allowing yourself what your mind and body craves and needs while ignoring hunger cues contributes to unnecessary stress and evolution proves it.
Aggressive behavior is commonly seen more often where food is scarce and when food is involved. Food is important to survive and when an animal can not get to food easily agonistic behavior sets in to fight for the food that is around them. Perhaps this contributes to why people become angrier and always on edge when they restrict what they eat. They are not feeding their bodies what it needs and wants due to restrictive eating because their body and mind are subconsciously on alert to fight for food because they haven't nourished their body the way it needs to be. Their body is looking for food because due to hunger because they haven't fed their body enough and their mind and body are ready to fight, even though they convince themselves they are not hungry, or don't want food that is available. Evolution would push for them to eat what food is available to them when hungry while they restrict what they eat because of calories, fat content, gluten or whatever else. This may also be why restrictive eaters suffer more with depression and anxiety. Our body and mind sees others as competition for a food source even though we have enough food for everyone because our body is not getting all the nutrients it craves and needs due to restricting what our body craves and needs. Our body and mind is continuously craving that food and because we don't allow ourselves to eat when we want to, or need to our body and mind are in a constant state of fighting for food. While aggression can be a survival tactic, being in a constant state of needing to eat, and your mind and body thinking it needs more nutrients and food is not.
So, eat when you are hungry, or craving food and eat whatever it is your body and mind desires because it is evolutionary beneficial to do so you you can focus on other things around your environment. Instead of constantly being on aggression mode for food, we can eat and relax and go back to being in a relaxed state of being as animals do after they have eaten.
So, eat when you are hungry, or craving food and eat whatever it is your body and mind desires because it is evolutionary beneficial to do so you you can focus on other things around your environment. Instead of constantly being on aggression mode for food, we can eat and relax and go back to being in a relaxed state of being as animals do after they have eaten.
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