What's FOOD to you? Medicine or Drug?

DrMercury
DrMercury Posts: 71 Member
edited November 17 in Motivation and Support
Hi everyone :). I think acknowledging the right answer to the question above is the key to our weight problem. What are your views on this?

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  • nutmegoreo
    nutmegoreo Posts: 15,532 Member
    Neither for me either.
  • Lounmoun
    Lounmoun Posts: 8,423 Member
    Food is fuel necessary for me to live and be healthy.
    Food is fun. I enjoy food. I like to cook. I like to try different things. I like cookbooks and recipes.
    I do not medicate with food or drink. I don't eat or drink to try to feel better.
    I am not addicted to food. I don't feel anxiety, guilt or anything like that about food.
  • L1zardQueen
    L1zardQueen Posts: 8,753 Member
    I love food, I'm a foodie. I eat the right amount though, not too much and not too little.
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,611 Member
    earlnabby wrote: »
    Neither. It is fuel and an enjoyment.

    This.

    Mainly fuel ... because I exercise a lot and need the fuel.

    My sense of taste/smell is somewhat limited so most food is pretty bland. I tend to like foods or dislike foods based on texture. But certain flavours/smells do come through and I do enjoy certain foods for the flavour.
  • stevencloser
    stevencloser Posts: 8,911 Member
    It's food.
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  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,224 Member
    Food is food, medicine is medicine, drugs are drugs. And efforts to psychologically reclassify an essential fuel source as an artificially described metaphor are unhelpful.
  • crackpotbaby
    crackpotbaby Posts: 1,297 Member
    drug:

    a medicine or other substance which has a physiological effect when ingested or otherwise introduced into the body.

    ........................

    - a drug can be a medicine
    - not all drugs are medicines
    - another substance can be a drug
    - a food which has a psysiological effect can be a drug

    .......................

    Do I think food plays an important part to health and wellbeing? Absolutely.

    Do I think foods should be used in substitution for evidence based medicines? No way.

  • snickerscharlie
    snickerscharlie Posts: 8,578 Member
    Yup, food is just food. :)
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    earlnabby wrote: »
    Neither. It is fuel and an enjoyment.

    This
  • neldabg
    neldabg Posts: 1,452 Member
    Neither? Fuel, culture, and happiness.
  • RuNaRoUnDaFiEld
    RuNaRoUnDaFiEld Posts: 5,864 Member
    earlnabby wrote: »
    Neither. It is fuel and an enjoyment.

    This is my answer also.
  • comeonnow142857
    comeonnow142857 Posts: 310 Member
    As everyone has pretty much said... medicines are drugs, I eat food for fuel and enjoyment.

    On my own/at home, I emphasise the fuel side. Socially, I emphasise the enjoyment side. But they work together... I eat more nutrient dense at home with convenience and nutrition being the number 1 factors, and more sweet things and varied flavours socially with flexibility and sharing and so on being the main factor.
  • Zombella
    Zombella Posts: 491 Member
    I love food. Besides the fact that I try to make myself feel better with it, mainly I just enjoy having a nice meal.
  • Mycophilia
    Mycophilia Posts: 1,225 Member
    Food is love, food is life.
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  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    Neither -- like others have said, fuel and a pleasure, usually a social one.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,984 Member
    You DON'T need medicine or drugs to live (unless of course one is diagnosed with a disease). You need food to live though.
    Food is food.

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    Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition
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  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    food is food...
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,611 Member
    DrMercury wrote: »
    Hi everyone :). I think acknowledging the right answer to the question above is the key to our weight problem. What are your views on this?

    And you ... @DrMercury?

  • FatPorkyChop
    FatPorkyChop Posts: 83 Member
    Food is pleasure, fun, something to look forward to.
  • daneejela
    daneejela Posts: 461 Member
    For most part of my life it was a fuel, sometimes pleasurable, sometimes no so much :D but it was also an important family socializing time (breakfast, lunch, dinner time). When it was like that, I had stable, optimal weight.
    I guess at the time food was what it should be - something that was supporting my life & wellbeing.

    Letter food become:
    - a toy to play with when I'm bored
    - a social exchange (with friends, relatives)
    - a bonding tool with my SO (searching for a kebab at 2 A.M. with some loud rock on the speakers, with a wind in our hairs :D )
  • jenilla1
    jenilla1 Posts: 11,118 Member
    edited April 2017
    OP, are you asking if we use food more like medicine (for wellness and healing) or if we use it more like a drug (to feel pleasure, soothe ourselves or satisfy an addiction)? I think that's what you meant by your question...

    ETA: My answer - it's probably a combination of things. I eat primarily to keep my body fueled and healthy. But I also eat for pleasure and enjoyment. Food is fun. I would never say that I have addictive food behaviors, though. I don't binge, eat for comfort or anything like that.
  • JacobNicolaus
    JacobNicolaus Posts: 34 Member
    DrMercury wrote: »
    Hi everyone :). I think acknowledging the right answer to the question above is the key to our weight problem. What are your views on this?

    Food is that thing that I take for my stomach to come down and stop rehearsing for an opera performance :smile:
  • Leenizi129
    Leenizi129 Posts: 133 Member
    For me Medicine! All I can say is it literally saved my life!
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