As You Know It.
The call of a donut, the freedom of a bag of chips, the nostalgia of holiday cookies, the bulk of a bag of candy, all things that once were, are no more. It was in the first Matrix where I learned how ignorance is "bliss," and once you give it up, the consequences that ensue. For me, the problems that obtaining nutrition knowledge caused was the loss of innocent pleasure food once brought about resulting inn a sort of sadness. The reminders of boxes of cereals, bowls of ice cream, or bags of candy, all enhancing a good time. I loved the textures, the smells, the tastes, of food. Real food too, real ingredients as well. I like them all, though I tended to seek more stimulation thus averting from satiation, for they all do something different to the brain, preventing any lackadaisical boredom. The problem is that early in life, due to what I believe to be a combination of environmental components and genetic predisposition, I relied on food for something else, some...