Have you ever heard of Gourmand Syndrome?
It occurs when a certain section of the brain’s right hemisphere is damaged. Patients become obsessed with food…specifically ‘fine dining’ choices.
For example, a snowboarder recently sustained brain damage in a near-fatal accident and awoke from a coma experiencing intense cravings for basil pesto, a food he had no particular feelings for prior to the fall.
I’m fascinated by this disease…because I think I have its polar opposite.
You see, I experienced a hard blow to the head at an early age. It wasn’t coma-worthy — just involved some stitches and a scar to the forehead. But I think it may have made me obsessed with the ‘non-fine dining’ choices on menus.
Goodness knows that’s the type of food I crave to this day. And if I can blame a whack on the head and call it Junk Food Syndrome — instead of a lack of self-control –
Sign me up.
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Have you ever heard of Gourmand Syndrome?
For example, a snowboarder recently sustained brain damage in a near-fatal accident and awoke from a coma experiencing intense cravings for basil pesto, a food he had no particular feelings for prior to the fall.
I’m fascinated by this disease…because I think I have its polar opposite.
You see, I experienced a hard blow to the head at an early age. It wasn’t coma-worthy — just involved some stitches and a scar to the forehead. But I think it may have made me obsessed with the ‘non-fine dining’ choices on menus.
Goodness knows that’s the type of food I crave to this day. And if I can blame a whack on the head and call it Junk Food Syndrome — instead of a lack of self-control –
Sign me up.
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Posted in Comedy, Commentary, Dieting, Food, Foods, Health, Humor, Life, Restaurants
Tagged besil pesto, blow to the head, brain damage, brain hemisphere, coma, comedy, commentary, cooking, dieting, fine dining, food, food cravings, food obsession, Foods, forehead scar, gourmand, gourmand syndrome, Health, Humor, junk food syndrome, life, restaurants, stitches