Your Brain Done Gourmet
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Destry Masterson
Destry Masterson is a health, fitness and nutrition expert. She has written articles about diet, exercise and food storage.
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Published on 01/25/2012
Food has a very real effect on your body, which is evidently clear in those who eat fast food daily. However, it also has powerful effects on the brain as well.
Gourmet food is high quality with great ingredients. This food is created for the connoisseurs who have specialized their refined taste.
Taste is a very unique sense, most sensations take place in a specific region of the brain: sight in the occipital lobe, hearing in the temporal lobe, and touch in the parietal lobe, but taste incorporates texture, smell, taste, and heat. When the nerves bring these sensations to the brain stem it triggers a part of the brain that is involved with arousal.
This is why many connoisseurs will refer to a dish as almost sensual, because for them and their highly refined skills of interpreting taste it basically is. To become a food critic, you do not try to pick out the bad parts of food and think about those, but rather you try to find the flavor in the food you are eating.
Once you start developing a sense for flavor you will be able to identify more in-depth characteristic about that flavor. Food is essentially a big compilation of chemical compounds all mushed together in a berry, a burger, or a tiramisu, or whatever you are eating.
As soon as you put the dish in your mouth your tongue starts isolating different chemicals, those chemicals are what spur the nervous response to the brain stem. A connoisseur is one who can tell the quality of the food that was prepared for them, for example they would be able to tell you if the strawberries in their acai bowl were in season or not.
Interestingly enough, not only does great food spur tantalizing pleasures near the mandible, but they also promote proper brain functioning. It is evidently clear to see that eating unhealthy will have adverse effects on the body.
You can ask anyone who is hyperglycemic, has high blood pressure, high cholesterol, or is just over weight. Food directly affects the physique, and there is no question about that.
However, now with modern science and technology, studies have revealed that different foods actually have different effects on the brain. For example chocolate tastes good, but it also produces a chemical in the brain that promotes peace, tranquility and wellness.
Berries and other fruit high in anti-oxidants are going to spur good memory. Vegetables with lots of minerals and vitamins are going to cause higher concentration and mental energy.
Connoisseurs have to recognize not only how the gourmet meal tastes but also exactly how it makes them feel. Start paying close attention to the tastes and the resulting mood that comes from the food you eat.
Taste is a very unique sense, most sensations take place in a specific region of the brain: sight in the occipital lobe, hearing in the temporal lobe, and touch in the parietal lobe, but taste incorporates texture, smell, taste, and heat. When the nerves bring these sensations to the brain stem it triggers a part of the brain that is involved with arousal.
This is why many connoisseurs will refer to a dish as almost sensual, because for them and their highly refined skills of interpreting taste it basically is. To become a food critic, you do not try to pick out the bad parts of food and think about those, but rather you try to find the flavor in the food you are eating.
Once you start developing a sense for flavor you will be able to identify more in-depth characteristic about that flavor. Food is essentially a big compilation of chemical compounds all mushed together in a berry, a burger, or a tiramisu, or whatever you are eating.
As soon as you put the dish in your mouth your tongue starts isolating different chemicals, those chemicals are what spur the nervous response to the brain stem. A connoisseur is one who can tell the quality of the food that was prepared for them, for example they would be able to tell you if the strawberries in their acai bowl were in season or not.
Interestingly enough, not only does great food spur tantalizing pleasures near the mandible, but they also promote proper brain functioning. It is evidently clear to see that eating unhealthy will have adverse effects on the body.
You can ask anyone who is hyperglycemic, has high blood pressure, high cholesterol, or is just over weight. Food directly affects the physique, and there is no question about that.
However, now with modern science and technology, studies have revealed that different foods actually have different effects on the brain. For example chocolate tastes good, but it also produces a chemical in the brain that promotes peace, tranquility and wellness.
Berries and other fruit high in anti-oxidants are going to spur good memory. Vegetables with lots of minerals and vitamins are going to cause higher concentration and mental energy.
Connoisseurs have to recognize not only how the gourmet meal tastes but also exactly how it makes them feel. Start paying close attention to the tastes and the resulting mood that comes from the food you eat.