I have no idea why, but all my life, when it came to eating, whether meals, snacks, or Halloween candy, I’ve always saved what I liked the best for last. The very end piece of a loaf of sourdough bread would be the final part of the loaf to go. With chocolate ripple ice cream, where veins of dark chocolate syrup were woven through vanilla ice cream, I’d eat around the veins and then go nuts with them at the end. I probably would have my own idiosyncratic approach to eating Oreos — everybody seems to have some pattern they swear by — but I’ve never much cared for Oreos. http://eliminateacne.impressivefood.com/inflammations-of-the-outside-of-the-genitals.html
Not only do I have my particular eating rituals, but if the behavioral scientists are right, so do you and everybody else. I don’t know how well that principle applies to the far too many people worldwide whose main food ritual is just hoping to God they can get some that day, but in places where obesity is a health issue, i.e. everywhere but the Third World, I think it probably holds true.
And it may be that in places where obesity is a health issue, the fact that we are ritual eaters might have the potential to turn us into healthier eaters. This might be especially important in the case of young children, most of whom are still trying on eating rituals like they were socks, until those that feel right are determined. We are, in fact, talking about nothing less than a possible answer to the question, “How do I get my kid or kids to eat their vegetables?”
Researchers at Harvard and the University of Minnesota may have hit on one, which they summarize in one word: involvement. They conducted a number of experiments wherein people were required to go through certain steps while consuming a food item, and they found that the more steps required, the more the people reported enjoying the food item. The steps could be things like unwrapping and systematically breaking up chocolate bars, or they could involve knocking on a table and pausing and breathing between bites of baby carrot.
They could make no sense whatsoever. It didn’t matter. Whatever the ritual, it made the food seem tastier and more interesting to the eater. Even lemonade tasted better when they made it than when they watched somebody else make it. And this “involvement increases pleasure” principle was strongest when the ritual was repetitive. What the lead researcher called “doing nice systematic gestures” over and over raised the eaters’ level of anticipation and the time they spent savoring the food. In other words, ritual made them enjoy the food more and eat it more slowly. http://causesacne.biglaunch.net/inflammations-of-the-outside-of-the-genitals.html
Parents of young children can already see where we’re headed with this. The more you can get them involved with the preparation and consumption of the food, from helping in the kitchen with special family recipes, to laying out the napkins and utensils in a particular way, to the order in which items go on the plate, the better your chances of making those items which are good for them fun and interesting and
A number of studies have found that families that take their meals together and prepare most of what they eat with their own hands have fewer weight-control problems, and the reason for this might boil down to simple involvement, established through family kitchen and dining rituals. The kind of rituals that the kids have grown up with for as long as they can remember. Rituals that add a special zest and pleasure even to green beans, peas, and broccoli.
All of a sudden, that age-old mom-and-toddler game where the spoonful of squash is the airplane and the child’s mouth is the hangar makes perfect sense. Parents of young kids, start your engines.
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