Trigger Foods

The concept of a trigger food is beginning to catch on.  Nutritionists and exercise physiologists are talking about it.  What is a trigger food?  It is any food that you can't stop eating.  And any food that you can't stop eating is deleterious to your health - both physical and mental.  Why is it deleterious to your mental health? Because it is demoralizing and depressing to find yourself out of control.  And if your trigger food is also of the "junk" variety, it is also likely to be deleterious to your physical health.  Consider that feasting on a large piece of German chocolate cake with vanilla ice cream on top may be loaded with empty calories, saturated fat, sugar, and a ghastly supply of other undesirables.  You might excuse such a splurge on any number of reasons, from being tired, to having exercised 5 hours yesterday.  But if this is the food you can't stop eating, whatever damage one serving would create would be multiplied several times over by a repeated trip down that lane.  Not only would you add calories and fat to your diet; you would also not permit other good nutrients from entering your body.  It is therefore extremely important to simply stay away from that first bite.  Will you perish if you don't come near that chocolate cake? Doubful.  You may simply learn to train your taste buds in a different direction.