[goldenkey]

A little off-topic but I recently realized the cultural history of "appetizers." Most of us, myself included, are used to appetizers being a restaurant thing. But I did some digging and it appears there is a valid scientific use. "Whetting one's appetite" is useful for everyone if they want to eat healthier meals. The average person consumes _pounds_ of food daily. If you're like me, it is difficult to eat a large meal even if it is tasty and healthy only if by the size of it. A good meal would include an appetizer to get one acclimated to the larger, less tasty, more work-required meal that is next.

Realizing this helped me adjust all my meals to include some kind of appetizer. Now I eat more healthy food and it isnt as much of a mental struggle.

Hope this realization helps someone else too..

[lolc]

I don't understand your comment. Where I live people generally eat way too much. Me included. It's common understanding here that healthy meals would be smaller but people still eat big meals.

If I strain I can understand your comment to say that appetizers allow us to eat the healthier food that follows. This would require the second course to be more healthy than the first. In my experience this is a rare occurrence.

[magic_beans]

You are a rare case. Most people love eating. Most people do not struggle to eat large amounts food. Most people actively enjoy eating large amounts of food.

No other internet forum on the world is as full of people who hate eating as HN and thinspo-gram.