Food is everyone, food is social and in my experience a lot of it is unhealthy and unnatural.
So why is it that people take silent offence if you decline to participate in group junk food orgies?

Whether it’s cakes at the office, dessert in the restaurant, chocolates on your birthday, nibbles with your friends, coffee at breaktime, biscuits at the training seminar, everything and anything goes at Christmas (the list goes on…)

People want you to indulge. If you don’t you get made to feel like you’re a spoilsport, that you’re somehow depriving yourself, you are odd, you have eating issues and generally you need to let your hair down and start enjoying yourself more? As a vegan it’s okay, you can say no to the cake round and not have others question you or try and get you to submit and then join them in how much cake is devoured until we all feel sick.

Why do I get questioned if I don’t want to eat food which is quite frankly unhealthy, unnatural and wasn’t designed by nature? Just because things are popular doesn’t make them right.

I seldom if at all drink alcohol but I get asked “are you Muslim?”, “are you on medication?”. No, I simply don’t drink alcohol. Regardless of my personal reasons or whether it’s healthy or not, it seems people need reasons or labels to help them understand why a person may not want to do something? I really didn’t think it was that difficult? I don’t question others as to why they are eating synthetically produced objects that cause neurotransmitters to fire and alter brain chemistry to produce pleasant effects – so why are they questionning me when I don’t take a piece of cake from the plate?

Live and let live is what I say but in my experience – in the food and drink social categories it seems people want you to do what they are doing and if you don’t they bombard you with interrogating questions.

Sure eating most junk foods does feel good, they are designed to produce that effect. Just like taking heroin or cocaine stimulate parts of the brain, junk food does the same thing. So why don’t we just all drop the cakes and get to the real stuff? Why bother with measly sugar coated raspberry muffins and not just snort a few fat lines and really enjoy ourselves? Oh yes, one is legal and the other is not.

People are stupid. Take this in continual daily small doses and it will make you feel good. It is legal, cheap, government officialised, freely available and everyone else is doing it and it makes us all happy.
Does it really make you happy? Does it feel great that most women (and men) I know are unhappy with their bodies, does it feel great when someone you know dies of heart failure, does it feel great when you can’t stop eating even though you are not hungry and does it feel great to spend most of your life having your body control you rather than the other way round?

Junk food is addictive, manipulating and it slowly destroys the body. Ironically junk food does not feel good once you start to eat healthily but sadly so many of us don’t get to experience this because we are constantly under attack from the physical addiction of junk food effects.

It seems to me a small percentage of people genuinely want to share the enjoyment of food and drink with others but a large percentage of people try to persuade you in joining their feasts because it makes them feel less guilty. The truth is they cannot control themselves and if they see you able to it makes them feel worse about what they’re not capable of doing.

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