Comments on: Why does cold weather make me crave heavy food? http://www.scienceline.org/2006/11/27/ask_moser_food/ The Shortest Distance Between You and Science Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:02:11 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: andy http://www.scienceline.org/2006/11/27/ask_moser_food/comment-page-1/#comment-3231 andy Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:25:55 +0000 http://scienceline.org/2006/11/27/ask_moser_food/#comment-3231 it's because we have so much time on our hands that makes us crave food all the time not just the weather:| it’s because we have so much time on our hands that makes us crave food all the time not just the weather:|

]]> By: adam waugh http://www.scienceline.org/2006/11/27/ask_moser_food/comment-page-1/#comment-1822 adam waugh Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:20:30 +0000 http://scienceline.org/2006/11/27/ask_moser_food/#comment-1822 to start with that comment to amanda was unfaif you could have just asked her to explain, and i've heard of that thory i think, and it is that some people believe that because of the lack of natural sunlight our body's need to make up for it by eating the rich heavy foods, but as she quite rightly said if we needed the sun in that way then we would not burn in the sun instead we would thrive in it like our cold blooded friends and to answear it came from origionally humans needing these warm heavy foods in the cold winters to build up fat to litteraly keep you alive then this continued over time and became tradition and this is quite new as even 100 years ago homes were not heated anywere near the standards they are now, but now we do not need these due to modern comforts mianly heating and cars basicaly we dont go outside in hard weather enough to warrent needing this to start with that comment to amanda was unfaif you could have just asked her to explain, and i’ve heard of that thory i think, and it is that some people believe that because of the lack of natural sunlight our body’s need to make up for it by eating the rich heavy foods, but as she quite rightly said if we needed the sun in that way then we would not burn in the sun instead we would thrive in it like our cold blooded friends and to answear it came from origionally humans needing these warm heavy foods in the cold winters to build up fat to litteraly keep you alive then this continued over time and became tradition and this is quite new as even 100 years ago homes were not heated anywere near the standards they are now, but now we do not need these due to modern comforts mianly heating and cars basicaly we dont go outside in hard weather enough to warrent needing this

]]> By: Dylan http://www.scienceline.org/2006/11/27/ask_moser_food/comment-page-1/#comment-1534 Dylan Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:17:34 +0000 http://scienceline.org/2006/11/27/ask_moser_food/#comment-1534 First, I reply to Amanda: Go back to third grade and learn to write. Your last sentence makes absolutely no sense. Anyway, It seems to me that all of these things are dead on. If you look at it with evolution in mind, if we get fatter we're more likely to stay warm. But I don't want to be fat! :) First, I reply to Amanda:

Go back to third grade and learn to write. Your last sentence makes absolutely no sense.

Anyway, It seems to me that all of these things are dead on. If you look at it with evolution in mind, if we get fatter we’re more likely to stay warm.

But I don’t want to be fat! :)

]]> By: Amanda http://www.scienceline.org/2006/11/27/ask_moser_food/comment-page-1/#comment-923 Amanda Thu, 21 Jun 2007 03:57:50 +0000 http://scienceline.org/2006/11/27/ask_moser_food/#comment-923 I think its behavial for as kids our mothers fathers ect. ate thicker foods and also they tend to be warmer so that youre body heat will raise. And the sunlight diorder I don't beleive real because the you still get sunburned in the summer so no. I think its behavial for as kids our mothers fathers ect. ate thicker foods and also they tend to be warmer so that youre body heat will raise. And the sunlight diorder I don’t beleive real because the you still get sunburned in the summer so no.

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