Food and its impact on emotions, thoughts and human behaviour?

[Guest guest]

I am interested in exploring the link

between anger and food and also between

anger, energy and virility.

 

 

In India, diet and its effect on the

body is believed to directly impact

quality of emotions and thoughts.

 

 

It is believed that eating light,

vegetarian food in moderate quantity

helps make you peaceful and it helps

clean your thought of excess violence,

aggression and anger. It is considered

good for spiritual inquiry, practice

and prayer.

 

 

It is also believed that eating meat,

eggs make you strong, gives you lot of

energy but it also generates lot of

body heat and increases anger,

aggression and tendency for violence.

 

 

In India, Brahmins (and those engaged

in spiritual studies, prayers and

mental purifications) are asked to

adhere to vegetarian diet. And, it is

accepted that Kshatriya (the warrior

caste) and others who are engage in

wars and battles eat meat, eggs and

other animal products.

 

 

 

Do you have any experience in this area?

 

 

Have you found it true in your practice?

 

 

 

Recently (after long interval) I had 5 egg

whites for morning breakfast for two

days in row and I was taken

aback by the impact it had on my body.

 

On plus side I felt very energetic,

strong (as if under the influence of

some drug or hormones), I felt very

potent sexually. But, one the minus

side I felt lot of inner body heat, lot

of aggression and very violent and

aggressive anger that I found quite

difficult to contain. I was taken aback

by this sudden change. It appeared as

if for some unknown reason lot of

hormones (maybe testosterone) were

released in my blood.

 

 

Quite interestingly, I didn't feel the

back spasm that I used to feel

frequently since I had moved to

relatively colder area and I was able

to physically lift and move items (such

as TV) that I previously found too

heavy for me. I also had unusual (for

recent times) erections and sexual

libido and sexual aggression.

 

 

I found that there was a beastly

edge to my love making during

that period. My " love making " was

wilder, more aggressive and rougher

during these 2-3 days. I was also more

demanding and felt much stronger need

for it. Further, my sex too appeared

more as part of my aggression and the

expression of my energy and " power "

rather than my " love " !

 

 

 

From all its symptoms it did appear

like a hormonal change and I was

surprised that it happened to coincide

with the change in my morning breakfast

habit.

 

 

Do you have any explanation?

 

 

Have you had ever had a similar

experience?

 

 

 

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*As far as I know India and Nepal are

only two countries that are

predominantly vegetarian. Hinduism and

Buddhism are only two major religions

that are predominantly vegetarian.