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Musings From the Stupor of Hunger
May. 29th, 2008 12:44 pmThis wonderful weekend, I caught food poisoning, and it was definitely the worst case of food poisoning (although not the most painful) I've ever gotten in terms of duration and overall severity.
I'm going on almost 4 days with only minimal food, and my attempts to digest more than mild liquids have been met with outright rebellion on the part of my stomach.
They say that people put on starvation diets (or anorexics) spend an overwhelming portion of their time thinking about food, and I believe it. A bunch of men who participated in an army study on starvation were actually reported to use cookbooks like porn.
While I certainly haven't gotten to that stage yet (I still like my porn populated with a living cut of meat of the "human" variety), it's spawned some very interesting musings. I may post them as I have time (or not), so bear please bear with the food theme until my eating habits go back to normal.
Here is your factoid for the day, from Wikipedia's article on the brain:
I'm going on almost 4 days with only minimal food, and my attempts to digest more than mild liquids have been met with outright rebellion on the part of my stomach.
They say that people put on starvation diets (or anorexics) spend an overwhelming portion of their time thinking about food, and I believe it. A bunch of men who participated in an army study on starvation were actually reported to use cookbooks like porn.
While I certainly haven't gotten to that stage yet (I still like my porn populated with a living cut of meat of the "human" variety), it's spawned some very interesting musings. I may post them as I have time (or not), so bear please bear with the food theme until my eating habits go back to normal.
Here is your factoid for the day, from Wikipedia's article on the brain:
The human brain needs a minimum of 0.1 calories per minute just to survive, or 144 calories a day. This energy can only come from glucose, which means that no-carb diets won't cut it. But doing a crossword puzzle (or other highly brain-intensive work) can use as much as 1.5 calories per minute.So if you could be a deep thinker for 16 hours a day, you would burn 1,440 calories and potentially be one sexy geek without needing to step a foot away from your computer!
