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I sometimes wonder how much our language influences our behavior. There are clearly somewhat distinct sensations that in my English-riddled mind all resolve to
by jcims 5y ago
I sometimes wonder how much our language influences our behavior.
There are clearly somewhat distinct sensations that in my English-riddled mind all resolve to ‘hunger’. Then in my head i think ‘hmm, I’m hungry’ and so i do what i do when I’m ‘hungry’. I think this is what leads to me those curious moments where I’m standing in front of the refrigerator trying to remember how I got there.
I’ve recently started using ’snacky’ when i have that desire to crunch on something salty. As dumb as it sounds it has helped me ride it out vs mindlessly grabbing something from the pantry.
- sneak 5y agoI became much more able to fast when I started supplementing with salt and magnesium and potassium in roughly the same quantities as my non-fasting diet (which includes a rather lot of salt, 5g+ per day). It was an astounding revelation to me.
- rolisz 5y agoIn German, you say "Ich habe hunger", which literally means I have hunger. In my experience Germans are much more thin. I'm also inclined to think that it's (to some extent) because hunger is something they have, versus something they are.
- chillingeffect 5y agoSapir-Whorf hypothesis has met its match. German obesity is on the rise: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_Germany https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_Germany
- halgir 5y agoIn Danish (probably other norse languages too) there is "sulten" which means hungry and "lækkersulten" which translates to delicious-hungry, for when I feel a craving for something in particular. It's a good point that explicitly distinguishing them might help. If I feel hungry, I might consciously stop and assess whether I'm legitimately hungry or only delicious-hungry.
- dsq 5y ago'Peckish' comes to mind. And it helps me to think "I'm not hungry, it's just the ghrelin manipulating me".