X-Mailer: USANET web-mailer (CM.0402.7.09) Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Ashley, Generally speaking, in a perfect world, the body supposedly only craves f= oods which contain = nutrients it's in need of. Of course, in a world full of processed foods,= our bodies are tricked = into all sorts of foolishness. We also have built in defense mechanisms t= hat you may not be = aware of. Ever noticed how difficult it is to get small children to eat m= ore than a few basic = foods? Believe it or not, that is a built in evolutionary response to mak= e sure they don't eat = anything dangerous until they are familiar enough with their environment = to know which foods = are good to eat and which are not. Keep in mind that human beings have th= e longest = "childhood" of any other species on earth. Unfortunately, I can't remember where I read this, but I believe it was i= n a Desmond Morris book = called The Naked Ape. Even if I read it somewhere else, The Naked Ape and= another book of his, = The Human Zoo, are must reads for anyone interested in what it really mea= ns to be human. Mike ____________________________________________________________________ =